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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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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Some simple ways you can enable a child to soar like an eagle over life’s storms. You can enable a child to soar like an eagle over life’s storms regardless of your finances. Read to a child Reading to 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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Reading with your child is one of the most important things you can do with your child.  The Reading Mother Strickland Gillilan  I had a Mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea, Cutlasses clinched in 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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