The Birthday Surprise
I Have A Choice
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To the Care giver and teacher:
Life is full of choices. Choices about what to do, what to eat, AND choices on how to feel. Too easily (and early) we adopt a way of thinking that blames others for how we feel. “You made me….” is so often expressed.
Sometimes we allow a set pattern of thinking to determine our emotions regarding a situation. Many times we FEEL and then ACT from those set patterns before giving opportunity for other perspectives.
If we begin to realize how and why we choose to feel, and then how our actions are based on those choices, we can begin to adopt other possibilities. As you read this book, allow your child to “choose” how they feel and then advance to that “feeling” to continue the story.
Just imagine, if we were guided from an early age to carefully think through the various perspectives and choices before us. We would then open up greater opportunities of understanding and a far better outlook for the future.
If we, but choose…….
IHAVE A CHOICE……
Hi, My name is Madison. I think it’s really cool that you’re reading my book. You know being a kid can sometimes be confusing. There are so many new experiences and people to learn about. Sometimes things happen that make me feel sad … or angry … or leave me feeling hurt or left out. These are called “feelings”, grown up’s call them “emotions”. These feelings are choices I make based on the way I think. There are times when I make up a story to go with things that happen and then base my feelings on the story I made up. Do you know that just by changing the story we tell ourselves, we can change what happens to us. Here, let me show you. Let’s take a journey……
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About the Book
Understanding the choices we make and why we make them can be key in learning about ourselves. If children could be guided to understand the “stories” we tell ourselves are not always true. Then be further guided to question those stories before they lead us down an unpleasant path, they would live under greater possibilities. Understanding choices and their impact would give us new insight to other perspectives and limit our judgments of others. Learning to read on a comprehension level that involves emotion is another aspect of the “I Have a Choice” book series. Each story has various possible journeys, allowing the reader to see how choices can affect “our story.” Believing that there are no “mistakes,” many times the ending will be the same; it is just the journey, the experience, that we choose to make different. Using real-life situations that youth may find themselves in, helps to identify and lay a foundation of possibilities to draw from.
About the Author
After raising three children, Cindy Porter began a journey of selfdiscovery. Embarking on a new career, and submerging herself in books, Cindy’s journey blossomed. At forty-nine, she chose to begin parenting all over. Madison was born in 2001. Her siblings were sixteen, eighteen, and twenty. Raising a child later in life and as a single parent also guided a new, intriguing thought process. Having a desire to teach Madison to live on a different consciousness level brought about the idea behind the “I Have a Choice” book series. It is her desire to help children and their caregivers understand how the situations we encounter on a moment-by-moment basis can be met with a new understanding. That we indeed, have a choice regarding the impact and the direction we allow each situation to have in our lives.