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When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

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Parenting Articles

Articles in this category include a large and growing list of articles. They help those who work with children and parents with various child issues, from helping a child overcome traumatic events, helping a child become a successful adult, helping a child deal with depression, and raising a child to be a reader. Their ultimate purpose is for children–all children– to soar like eagles above life’s storms.

Bobbie J Rae’s vision is insightful and motivating. It brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.

These posts describe strategies to help children overcome life’s problems and become healthy, happy, and successful adults.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic book for children about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives.

Near a River encourages early reading for children. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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Spring Allergies?

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Encouragement to cope with your spring allergies on near a river.

Are you suffering from spring allergies like we are? We are in the sunny south instead of our home since it is still too cold there now and the cold affects my husband’s heart disease.  Every morning when we have Read more…

Dolly’s Imagination

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World?, How Can I Improve My Country?, School Plans, The Power of Reading June 15, 2020

Dolly Parton created Imagination Library to enable all kids to be successful in life. Dolly Parton had a dream.  She wanted to inspire children to love books.  Her Daddy was uneducated and could not read or write, so she created Read more…

Saved by Writing Again!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World?, Training for Success June 15, 2020

Thank you to all of my teachers who made certain that I understood effective writing!  Last week I had another chance to use writing to solve a problem. Three weeks ago, I ordered a pair of Birkenstock sneakers for 65% Read more…

Expect the Best!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Violence, Guns, and Drugs June 15, 2020
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We all need to expect the best from our children, our future! When happens when parents expect the best? Their children fall in line, follow rules, and act responsibly. No one knows this better than Brad Howard and his son Read more…

Step Two: Mend ANY Relationship

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to mend ANY relationship (Stop proving you are right) on Near a River.

Part two in a series of posts on how to mend any relationship. In part one of this series of posts, I wrote that the first step in mending any relationship is loving the person unconditionally.  First you have to Read more…

Step One: Mend ANY Relationship

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging everyone to mend relationships with love on Near a River.

Part one in an encouraging series of posts on how to mend relationships. My Grandma only had a second grade education but she was very wise.  She taught me so many things about life in what she told me and Read more…

Step Four: Mend ANY Relationship

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Training for Success June 15, 2020
Encouraging you to mend ANY relationship with this fourth step on near a river.

What is the fourth step to mend ANY relationship? In the first three posts in this series, you read the first three steps to mending ANY relationship.  First, you must commit to loving the person.  Second, you must give up Read more…

Avoid the Flu!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, For Veterans, The Power of Positive Thinking!, Training for Success March 15, 2020
Encouraging you to avoid the flu on near a river.

Smiling DOES enable your body to avoid the flu! It is cold outside.  I woke this morning before 7 am to snow covering our lawn.  Flu season is upon us. Did you know that smiling enables you to avoid the flu? In Read more…

A Funny Letter

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, Happy Father's Day!, How Can I Heal My Body?, Overcome Anxiety May 1, 2024
Encouraging you to read this funny letter on near a river.

Read this funny letter and have a good laugh! A father passing by his son’s bedroom was  shocked to see the bed was nicely made and everything was picked up. Then, he saw a letter, propped up prominently on the Read more…

An Important Lifestyle Advisory

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Heal My Body? March 15, 2020
Encouraging you to understand this lifestyle advisory on near a river.

I simply have to share this lifestyle advisory with you. Did you know these facts? The things that protect your heart also protect your brain from dementia—exercise, eating well, and avoiding cigarette smoke. Both the brain and the heart need Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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