: About Me

I have experimented with many things in writing over the years. I have written moral stories, children's stories, newspaper articles, mystery and I am also working on delving into fantasy. The moral stories that I wrote seemed to have a good response to them, and they came out of my true feelings. I seemed to do good at writing children's stories as well. One of the stories I wrote while in eighth grade was read publicly to an audience of approximately seventy five people and was the only story read to get a positive response out of the audience. The newspaper articles I wrote were published in the Truman University Index, the college newspaper in the Spring and Fall of 2001.

My passion is ...

reading

I know too much about ...

depression and moving

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything

My childhood ambition ...

to become a writer

My favorite memory ...

the day I moved in with my husband

Why I write ...

to release the stress of everyday life

My first job ...

waitress

My inspiration ...

my family

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Tips What children need from their parents

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Darkness surrounds them, shadows dance in the dim light coming from the small princess night lite. Monsters appear in the closet door while scratching sounds come from the bedroom window. The child cries for her mother, or father, wanting them to scare the monsters away. Easing a child's night terrors is only one thing a child needs from their parents. Before a parent can ease a child's terrors, the child has to trust the parent, and feel safe when they appear. A child is defenseless in the world around them. They learn the defenses as they grow up, but when they are young, they depend on ...

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