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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

Category Archives: School Plans

Parents, do your children complain about going back to school after summer vacation? Do they struggle with the routine of their new school year?

BJ taught special education and understands that transitioning back to school from summer vacation can challenge any child of any age, even college students.

Articles in this category will help you prepare your child to return to school. These posts discuss physical and mental preparedness, saving money while shopping, as well as strategies and learning tips to have the best school year possible and enable your child to be successful in life.

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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How to Learn Better

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, School Plans, Training for Success December 26, 2023
Encouraging you to learn better on near a river.

Use these school hacks to learn better yourself or help your child learn better. Doing your child’s homework for him does not help him or her earn anything, but teaching him how to learn does. Here are some tips to Read more…

Something Scary…

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Change the World?, How Can I Improve My Country?, School Plans December 27, 2023
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October is the month for scary things…from ghouls and goblins and witches to bullying… October is the month the US celebrates its “scary” holiday, Halloween.  We dress our children as ghouls, goblins, superheroes, or storybook characters and take them to Read more…

Pay Attention!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Heal My Body?, School Plans, Training for Success May 5, 2020
Encouraging you to eat healthy and pay attention on near a river.

Students starting school are not the only people who need to be able to pay attention.  In addition to students, people making road trips also need to pay attention.  Since my husband will be making a 10 to 12 hour Read more…

Wherever You Live…

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, School Plans May 1, 2024
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Wherever you live, there is something you need to do to prepare your child at any age for school. When we think about sending a child to school, we usually think about school supplies, clothes, and a reading list.  But Read more…

Every Child

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Change the World?, School Plans, Violence, Guns, and Drugs May 1, 2024

The success of every child begins in infancy.  The messages we receive as children about ourselves make us or break us as adults.  When I was a child, I received these messages from my Grandma.  Because of her messages, I 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…

Back-to-School Helpers!

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Heal My Body?, School Plans, Training for Success March 6, 2020

Enable your child to succeed in school with these back-to-school helpers! It is that time of year again!  Kids are going back to school.  They often get a variety of seemingly minor health issues that cause them to not perform Read more…

Change a Child’s Life!

About Love's Power..., Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), How Can I Change the World?, How Can I Improve My Country?, Overcome Anxiety, Overcome Depression, School Plans March 6, 2020

You can change the life of one child and improve the world! Do you want to make a difference in the world? Of course you do! Here are two ways you can change a child’s world.  Purchasing things a child Read more…

Why Readers Become Leaders

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, School Plans, The Power of Reading, Training for Success May 1, 2024
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Children who read become leaders! Children who read have a definite advantage as adults, especially in today’s business world.  They become leaders. Readers turn into leaders for five reasons. Better thinkers A reader acquires knowledge. Knowledge enables you to keep Read more…

Give a Child a Dream

Articles On Nearariver.com (Are the Best!), For Parents, How Can I Be Happy?, How Can I Improve My Country?, School Plans May 1, 2024

Give a child success by giving him a dream. My Grandma gave me many tools that have enabled me to soar above the many storms in my life: she gave me a growth mindset (“Success Part One: Think to be 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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