An Excerpt from Brenda’s First Book

Dear Reader,

This wonderful book you are about to read is the Revised edition of Volume One and I am very excited to share twelve of my parenting advice columns I wrote in my hometown of Penticton for the Penticton Herald. I thoroughly enjoyed answering parent’s questions and offering ideas, support and strategies in my column.

Along with twelve of my favorite columns, I have also included new and current ideas and research on managing children’s behavior, along with my own personal experiences as a parent and early child¬hood educator. I am excited to share new strategies and tools, real life experiences and small discov¬eries for coping, nurturing, enjoying and surviving the early years with your children.

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I hope that parents and caregivers will recognize aspects of themselves and their children in my columns within these chapters and remember that, unique though our own experiences may be, not one of us really travels this path alone.

Parenthood is truly what binds us together. Our own doubts and questions awaken empathy for ​parents everywhere and our fierce love for our own children deepens our compassion for all children. I encouraged parents and caregivers to write to me for over two years and I was honored to share advice and support with them from 35 years of rewarding and fulfilling experiences, so that somehow I was able to ease the way for them on their journey with their children through childhood.

​​~ Brenda Fisher-Barber, a.k.a. Ms. Barber