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Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S.: Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully - Softcover

Dismore, Terry L.

 
9781524688097: Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S.: Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully
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ISBN 10: 1524688096 ISBN 13: 9781524688097
Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

P.A.R.E.N.T.S (Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully) was written to fulfill a need in me and to share with other parents. P.A.R.E.N.T.S is my concerted effort to acquaint and empower parents with information, to become informed decision makers for themselves and their families. The book P.A.R.E.N.T.S should be viewed as a resource to explore the possibilities of what life has to offer. Parents are hardworking people wearing various hats for the success of their children. Parents often neglect themselves while providing necessities for their families. The daily bombardment of information to pick and choose from offers colliding initiatives. My goal is to help parents make a difference in their lives and ultimately in the lives of their children. Please partner with me and believe the words written are designed to take you places and show new perspectives about living successfully. Effective partnerships require vision, leadership, purpose, understanding, and commitment. When we as parents are informed, a higher level of engagement and consciousness evolve. Picture us sitting at the kitchen table exchanging information on the same frequency of understanding. There is no judgment in this space, only mutual sharing, respect, and appreciation. P.A.R.E.N.T.S is here to motivate, encourage, and inspire you with real success thinking activities. Reading P.A.R.E.N.T.S (Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully) is requesting that you institute the seven letters, seven words, and seven ideas for you to become a responsible thinker for your family. P.A.R.E.N.T.S will challenge you to write and live your story through a positive lens, unique to you and your family. The interactive activities will permit you to write and exchange dialogue between you, your children. Thank you for being a change agent. This is one mother, teacher, mentor, motivational encourager, talking mother to mother. Armed with research, my thesis, scientific principles, and biblical principles, P.A.R.E.N.T.S was birthed. Research has documented that staff development for teachers improve the educational outcome of students; therefore, the same principles hold true for parents. P.A.R.E.N.T.S is your staff development written expressly for you. In real estate, when searching for a home, you ask the realtor how to find a house in a good community with great schools, a safe environment and receive the most value for your investment. The realtor replies, Its location, location, location. When asked, What is the best way to parent? my reply is: Parents parenting, parents parenting, parents parenting will render the best success. Thank you for allowing P.A.R.E.N.T.S to be your blueprint and navigational compass for life-affirming achievement. Enjoy heartwarming and sometimes gut-wrenching interviews with women who were willing to share their stories with me and now you. P.A.R.E.N.T.S is here to be of service. Together we can change the future and make it a better tomorrow by what we do today.

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Initially, Terry Dismore was pursuing her professional career as a health care administrator at a prestigious New York hospital. After the birth of her children, however, her focus and disposition yielded to the call of motherhood. Terry recently moved from New York to a small town in North Carolina. Her home is surrounded by a forest, providing the perfect idyllic surroundings in a picturesque community bursting with nature, which is perfect for dreaming and writing. In her leisure time, she likes to take long walks, solve puzzles, travel, read, eat ice cream, watch romance movies, and dance like no one is watching. Terry has a masters degree in Elementary Education and a New York state certification in Education Administration and is a certified DreamBuilder Coach. She has more than thirty years experience as a parent. For thirty-six years, she worked with a diverse population of students and parents. Terry has a passion for workshop curriculum, developing and implementing parent-based lectures. Terrys workshop topics are formulated from her thesis, Parental Involvement and the effects linked to Academic Achievement, and bridge the gap between home and school, fostering academic excellence, social development, parental involvement, empowerment, and encouragement for everyone. Terry is ready to lead the way in a discussion highlighting the pivotal role women play in todays society while raising children. She appeared on a parenting edition of 20/20; has received awards for workshop presentations; has developed mentoring programs, community tutorial services, international programming for cultural awareness, museums created for children by children, and a science research program; has provided childrens books for a library in Africa; and more. Becoming a new mom was nervous and puzzling for Terry, and she realized that everything comes with instructions except children. When her parenting journey began, there was little to no information. Terrys quest was always to provide her children with the best tools possible for them to do well in school and in life. Her philosophy and mission statement have been honed and refined over the years while she raised three children and worked with students and parents in a diverse community. She comes to serve parents and children with the hope of a better future. That future begins with you. Terry refers to herself as your ME (motivational encourager), guide, and certified DreamBuilder Coach. Writing Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S. was emotionally cathartic and life-affirming for her. Youve invited to join her in leadership, purpose, vision, and commitment to a better future. She has a driven desire and mission for the best possible outcome for families. She is doing what mothers do best, and that is to share information for the good of us all. Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S. is a resource of information for increased parental awareness and involvement.

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Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S.

Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully

By Terry L. Dismore

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2018 Terry L. Dismore
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5246-8809-7

Contents

To the Fathers, xiii, 
Acknowledgments, xv, 
Foreword, xvii, 
Introduction, xix, 
Daily Affirmations, 1, 
Mother-to-Mother Talk, 4, 
The First Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Preparing, 9, 
The Second Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Achievers, 27, 
Against All Odds: Interview with PN, Mother and Educator, 38, 
"One for All and All for One": Interview with Bev, Mother of Twelve, Grandmother of Thirty-Four, 43, 
The Third Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Reaching, 48, 
The Fourth Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Excellence, 51, 
The Fifth Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Nurturing, 59, 
The Sixth Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Talents, 62, 
The Seventh Letter in P.A.R.E.N.T.S. Represents Successfully, 64, 
Create a Family Mission Statement, 70, 
Dear Daughters, My Greatest Achievement, 72, 
Make Time for Your Children, 78, 
Formula for Success, 80, 
Seven Steps for Success, 84, 
"I Took a Page from My Mother": Interview with Pat, Stay-at-Home Mother, 86, 
Parent/Child Activities: Seven Letters, Seven Words, and Seven Ideas, 91, 
Life's Puzzle One Piece at a Time: A Metaphor for Parenting, 110, 
A Full-Circle Moment: Mrs. Burton, First-Grade Teacher, 114, 
A Rainbow of Crayons, 118, 
Poetry: "Color Me", 120, 
A Letter to My Mother, 121, 
To Parents: Begin Where You Are, and Work with What You Have, 126, 
P.A.R.E.N.T.S. CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT, 131, 
Online Resources for Parents and Children, 132, 
About the Author, 133, 
Coaching Time with Terry, 135,


CHAPTER 1

DAILY AFFIRMATIONS


These are some examples. Whenever possible, add actions or feelings to your affirmations.

• Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

• Think before speaking. Once said, things are difficult to take back.

• Upon waking, be silent in order to hear the thoughts of the divine. Write the message down.

• I am an ambassador of the Creator, and I will make good decisions today!

• I will bless people today with a smile or encouraging words.

• I will not entertain any judgmental thoughts toward myself and others.

• Use small things to make others happy! I will say, "good morning."

• Today I need grace and mercy for myself and others.

• I will be intentional in forgiveness today.

• I will take a little time for me today.

• I will expect good things to happen for myself and my family.

• Look for a blessing in disguise and be a blessing.

• Listen to something motivational and uplifting.

• Read a book.

• Participate in love thoughts.

• Pray.

• I'm thankful and keep a gratitude journal.

• I will wear bright colors that make me and everyone around me smile.

• Daydream.

• Laugh out loud and dance as if people aren't watching.

• Love and be loved.

• Take a bubble bath tonight until my skin is like a raisin.

• Watch sappy romance movies with happy endings.

• I'm eating butter pecan ice cream and having cake today. (Don't judge me.)

• Look in the mirror and tell yourself, "You're awesome."

• I'm shopping without guilt.

• I purchase a small gift for myself for each holiday including Father's Day.

• I celebrate each day of my birthday month.

• I'm not cooking today. I'm going out to be served.

• Have a massage — not a luxury, a necessity.

• Give God all my problems so that I can enjoy my day. He'll let me know if he needs me to participate.

List your favorite affirmations and thoughts to be recited daily.

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CHAPTER 2

MOTHER-TO-MOTHER TALK


I'm very excited to share my experiences with you mother to mother.

When I became a new mom, I was nervous about how to raise my daughters. I was then, and still am now, puzzled that everything comes with instructions except for children.

When I began my parenting journey, there was very little documented information. My quest was always to provide my children with the best tools possible in order for them to do well in school and in life. The fact that you are reading this book clearly illustrates that you are also seeking those tools.

My goal is to help parents make a difference in their children's lives and, consequently, in their own lives. Parental involvement is so important that researchers continue to study multiple variables to involve parents in school. Joyce L. Epstein, leading researcher in this subject, identified parental involvement as one of the strongest indicators for student academic achievement. She identified the following six types of involvement in her framework:

1. Parenting — Help all families establish home environments to support children as students.

2. Communicating — Design effective forms of school-to-home and home-to-school communications about school programs and children's progress.

3. Volunteering — Recruit and organize parent help and support.

4. Learning at Home — Provide information and ideas to families about how to help students at home with homework and other curriculum-related activities, decisions, and planning.

5. Decision-Making — Include parents in school decisions, developing parent leaders and representatives.

6. Collaborating with Community — Identify and integrate resources and services from the community to strengthen school programs, family practices, and student learning and development.


The entirety of Epstein's Framework of Six Types of Involvement is available on the UNICEF website.

Epstein identified these factors as tools to increase parental involvement. The study further showed that federal legislation such as Goals 2000: Educate America Act adopted policy and commitment to improving all areas of parental involvement. This act focused on the family to improve the quality of education and the school as the tool to accomplish this goal. Many established studies have concluded parental involvement impacts student academic achievement.

Thanks to the California Avenue School in Uniondale, New York, I was able to conduct and implement several successful programs involving parents in their children's education. Research preparation for writing my thesis, "Parental Involvement and the effects linked to Academic Achievement," helped me to formulate theories into practice. The statistical data I accumulated gave evidence supporting favorable results when parents were directly involved in their children's education.

My advice to parents and teachers is to provide research, action plans, solutions, and budgets for program implementation. There are several other indicators for involving parents in school; however, for the purpose of this book, they are too lengthy to list here.

During my teaching years, I was an active initiator of various programs involving parental, school, and teacher participation. I taught elementary school for...

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Verlag
AuthorHouse
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1524688096
ISBN 13 
9781524688097
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Anzahl der Seiten
158
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