: About Me

Shannah B Godfrey has worked as a chemist in the aerospace/missile industry and as a project manager in the armaments/ammunition industry. She is currently a copywriter and author of children's phonics books. She developed her own unique method of phonics instruction to teach her own 14 children how to read before kindergarten. Now she passes her wisdom and methods to other parents and educators through her wonderful books with flash cards. "A Pretty Girl Was Alpha Bette" is the first in the series. Even children with mild LD have no problem with reading after learning The Godfrey Method. Mrs. Godfrey has published and presented a scientific paper and several internal papers, but enjoys freelance and writing for children. She also has experience in the areas of adoption, working mothers, single parenting, twins, early childhood learning, foster parenting, divorce, death of a child, grieving, non-traditional returning college students, home schooling, surviving abuse, childhood bipolar disorder, ADHD, making it in the man's world, mentoring middle school age girls, surviving large families, depression, suicide, solid rocket motor chemistry, and reconciling science with religion.

My passion is ...

Protecting children, writing, math and logic puzzles

I know too much about ...

Surviving abuse, depression

My parents always told me ...

Happiness is grateful appreciation

My childhood ambition ...

Be a brain surgeon

My favorite memory ...

Learning to read at my father's knee

Why I write ...

To share what wisdom time has given me

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

El Shaddai

My first job ...

Smitty's Pancake House

My best moment ...

The arrival of each child, no matter how

My inspiration ...

Spirituality

Relationships & Family > Grief & Loss Grief: Coping with the death of a child

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How Do You Cope with Losing Your Child? DIMENSIONS Being with my son, Michael, was like a carnival every day, Like sunning ourselves on a warm beach, Like having a bunch of extra cash, Like snuggling into a thick comforter; He was ice cream for dinner every night And the perfect stand-up comic. Now he's gone, it's like crawling through a heavy snowstorm, Like rotted sauerkraut on my candy bar, Riding a unicycle with a flat tire Like a book with most of the pages ripped out. How do you recover from the death of your child? I never thought it would happen to me. Our children are supposed to ...

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