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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 You can have success!

Everyone who desires success needs help from time to time with personal and professional success, anger management, successfully overcoming hard times, and other topics. These articles provide some help in these areas. They enable every reader to overcome life’s storms as an eagle does and be successful.

Bobbie J Rae’s vision is insightful and encouraging. Therefore, her vision brings you a successful and positive outlook on life.

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 overcomes the storms in life.

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There is a time to stay out of harm’s way, and a time to “FEAR”– face everything and rise! My definition of fear is “face everything and rise”. Until I was almost four years old, I heard loud violent arguing Read more…


Encouraging you to teach your child by your example on near a river.

Teach your children key principals for success through your example. When I was growing up, my role models—my Sunday School teacher, my grandmother, my neighbor, my teachers in school—set examples for all children around them.  Their examples taught me these Read more…


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Teach a child well.  Enable him to be successful. My husband has had some successful friends. One friend, Jim, was a manufacturer’s representative. Jim and his wife Lisa had ten children. All ten children were well-mannered.  They did chores and helped each Read more…


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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…


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Five keys to a healthy marriage. Getting married is romantic. But how can you keep a marriage healthy for life? In 2015, researchers interviewed 700 people married for 40,000 years collectively. Some divorced couples were interviewed also. Here are the Read more…


Every person needs self-confidence to succeed in life. Having self-confidence is a key to success in life.   A person needs confidence to believe he can reach his goal. How can any person develop confidence, including a child? Simply by doing Read more…


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Resiliency comes from love. Both resiliency and love enable a child to say no to drugs. Every child can say be strong enough to say no to drugs. Even though I grew up in a dysfunctional home, I still said no Read more…


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Having a pet is a great way to reduce stress and improve your emotional, mental, and physical well-being. Do you want to reduce stress? Burn more calories?  Feel happier? Get a pet. Pets provide more than unconditional love. Owning a Read more…


Strategies for teaching your child to use good judgment. We all know that children must learn to use good judgment to be successful. But how do we teach children to do this? Research shows that treating your child kindly from birth Read more…


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You are special. Remember that.     You are special. You may not understand how much you mean to everyone around you. Everyone’s day is happier. Just because you are here.  What you say matters. It touches the hearts of everyone around 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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