Where Children Fly: Building Character with Inspirational Parenting

Were you the one I saw at the mall with the T-shirt "WHO ARE THESE KIDS AND WHY ARE THEY CALLING ME DADDY?!" You're a dad or mom or a cross juggler or a grandparent or a teacher. You're looking at this book because you love a child or it just popped up. I wrote this book because I love children. I also wrote "Where Children Fly" because I wanted to be parentally inspiring. Everyone says parenting is so important, but many of us just pray we don't go insane trying to potty train or get through the teenage hormones. We hardly consider what we do as inspirational. So much of what we do in loving children is out of what we were given, not what we really want them to be. Parenting is a very overwhelming, demanding work of the heart. We finally feel we've got the knack of changing their diaper when those cute little mood swings begin. We manage to get them to school and we find the issues changing whether we are ready or not. After all, are we really all that "grown up" ourselves?! Once in a while, we look back (to the way we were raised) or around (to our peers raising children) and then up with a silent serious plea the heavens have heard before. "God, help me!" You think you want a smart, cute, rich, funny kind of child, but all those things are, well, just opinions as a general rule. We've got beauty pagentry, SAT, rock stars and others to decipher our perspectives. There's really a great deal more to those of us who want children with respectable manners, compassion, vision, and parental pride. I see you looking at me saying, "I can't even get them to pick up their toys and I'm suppose to create the next amazing humanitarian?" Before you walk away, consider the possibility. Not long ago my husband and I were at a local eatery. In walked an elderly woman in an old brown coat, followed by four stair-step brothers, maybe age ten to sixteen. They found a table. One helped Grandma with her coat and cane. An older one brought her a plate. As they flanked her sides and talk