Book
and Statistics
My
book had to have the cover redesigned so it will be slightly
longer... but not too much I don't think. I am just waiting on the
publisher's go ahead to announce the name of the house. I have been
helping to show promos and using my experience in commercial art
classes to show my editors simple promotional items and ads some of
which I will be using.
I
think every kid and parent and teacher will find something useful in
my book, “Snapshots From Home.” Y'know we as parents like to
believe that these troubles start in high-school, but that really is
a misnomer Where you aware that the number one age group for teen
suicide is twelve? Did you know that the kids that usually start
abusing pharmaceutical drugs are statistically age 10?
The
statistics are frightening but if you really think about it it makes
perfect sense. A ten-year-old mind set is more likely to decide,
“Well if the doctor prescribed them to my mother they must be
harmless because a doctor would never hurt her.” It will more than
likely not even occur to them that mixing these substances could kill
you. Sometimes it our children's very innocence that threatens to
injure them. My book is very good for these kinds of things. You can
easily open a discussion with your child and inform them of dangers
without appearing accusatory.
I
will try to get these into schools, treatment centers perhaps even
the churches as after reading a contemporary story it is sometimes
easier to get kids to open up. Once you establish what their thought
process is it is much easier to say, “This is what our belief says,
how do you feel about that?”
I
think the time has come in this world to start not just talking at
our kids, but to start LISTENING to our kids. Hard to do sometimes,
but a necessity now more than ever.
That's
my side of it,
Angel
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