Being a teacher is a full-time job and then some, but if you can find a way to make your classroom work for you, things can go smoother. R. Janet Walraven has spent her adult life teaching in grades K-12 in both public and private schools across the country. She has combined her years of experience to help teachers and parents learn tactics and techniques to help them both in and out of the classroom. I enjoyed this book. Though I am not a teacher, I am homeschooling my children this year. I don’t read a lot of self-help books. I don’t know why. This one struck an interest in me, I believe, because I am teaching my kids but also because I used to want to be an educator. This book covers everything from dealing with difficult parents and unexpected allergies to uncooperative administration and working with volunteers. I will admit, I’m not 100 percent behind everything that she says, but for the most part, I agree and appreciate her perspective. I do feel that a lot of this book is not helpful for a homeschooling mother, such as dealing with difficult parents or making friends with the janitor, because I am both the parent and the janitor. However, I found a lot of suggestions for working with the students. I feel that this book would be very helpful for teachers and that, in a rather limiting way, it would also be helpful to parents and homeschooling families. I gave this book four out of five stars. I received my copy of this book from the author for the sole purpose of providing an honest review. When fourteen-year-old John Smith fell through the ice on a Missouri lake one January morning, Joyce Smith was terrified that she would lose her son. When she arrived at the hospital, John had been without a heartbeat for more than an hour. Joyce wasn’t ready to accept that her son was dead and in a moment of pure, desperate faith, Joyce cried out to God to save her son. At that precise moment, John’s heart began beating again. Though his heart was going again, John was no where near out of the woods. Despite all of his doctor’s worries and facts, John quickly began to improve, with the mighty power of prayer behind him. Sixteen days after John fell through the ice, he walked out of the hospital, completely and miraculously healed. I first heard of this novel when I saw the trailer for the movie. This got me interested in the novel. When there was a giveaway for the novel on Goodreads Firstreads, I figured I would enter. And then I won. Being as this has a lot of medical scenes in it, I figured that if I didn’t win I would just see the movie. I know, I know. The book is always better than the movie, but I am not knowledgeable in medical jargon and I worried that I would have to Google search one term after the other while reading. Thankfully, though there are a lot of medical terms, Joyce Smith took the time to explain what they ment. Joyce managed to put the reader right there in the hospital with her. The writing made the whole situation very real for a mother like me, from Joyce’s panicked dash to the hospital to the day John walked out of the hospital. I was there. I thought this novel was a well written and worthwhile read. I gave this book five out of five stars and would recommend it to anyone looking to believe in miracles. I won my copy of this novel from Goodreads Firstreads and the image above is my own. |
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