As a parent of a missionary you may feel that missing your child and your grandchildren signals a lack of faith. But proclaiming the gospel and making disciples was not meant to eclipse the loving family bonds God ordained. Whether you're the parent of a missionary recruit or a parent of an experienced missionary, you'll benefit from the authors' research and personal experience as they present a comprehensive plan for understanding missionary life, navigating the holidays, grandparenting long-distance and saying good-bye well. Combining a counselor's professional insight and a parent's personal journey, plus ideas and stories from dozens of missionaries and POMs, Parents of Missionaries is a valuable tool for missions mobilizers and educators as well as parents. The POM experience amounts to a journey through change, pain and adjustment. Wherever you are on that journey, this resource will encourage you and help you thrive and stay connected with your children and grandchildren serving cross-culturally. Not only can you survive as a parent of a missionary―you can thrive.

Parents of Missionaries: How to Thrive and Stay Connected When Your Children and Grandchildren Serve Cross-Culturally

Parenting & Relationships

Stortz, Diane

Savageau, Cheryl

Parenting

A Native American girl's feelings are hurt when schoolmates make fun of the children who live at the lake until her grampa tells her a Seneca folktale

Muskrat Will Be Swimming

Children's Books

Geography & Cultures

UNKNO

*Notable Books For Children - Smithsonian*
*Skipping Stones Book Award for Exceptional Multicultural and Nature/Ecology Books*
*Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Prose - Children's Literature)*
*Wordcraft Circle Mentor of the Year*
Although Jeannie loves her lakeside neighborhood, her feelings are hurt by her schoolmates who live in fancier homes and call her a Lake Rat.
When she confides her troubles to her grandfather, he tells her about his own childhood experiences with teasing. As the story unfolds, the grandfather shares a traditional Seneca story that helps Jeannie to find strength in her Native identity and a new appreciation for the different roles that animals play in nature. This is a quiet book that celebrates family and place and the teachings of Native people. Muskrat Will Be Swimming is based on a real incident in Cheryl Savageau's life.
Muskrat Will Be Swimming will help inspire classroom conversations about:
<ul>
<li>Teasing and bullying</li>
<li>Storytelling traditions and customs in Native and non-Native families</li>
<li>The Seneca creation story and creation stories in general</li>
<li>Traditions of the Sky Woman in Native stories</li>
<li>Contemporary Native American families and building connections to tribal identity</li>
<li>Native identity and mixed-blood ancestry</li>
<li>Significance of dreams in Native culture</li>
<li>The role of animals as teachers in Abenaki culture</li>
<li>Animals of the forest</li>
<li>The Abenaki view towards the natural environment</li>
<li>The value of experiences in the natural world for children's growth</li>
</ul>
F&amp;P Text Level R

Literature & Fiction

Tilbury House, Publishers

Out of the Crazywoods is the riveting and insightful story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Without sensationalizing, she takes the reader inside the experience of a rapid-cycling variant of the disorder, providing a lens through which to understand it and a road map for navigating the illness. The structure of her story--impressionistic, fragmented--is an embodiment of the bipolar experience and a way of perceiving the world. Out of the Crazywoods&nbsp;takes the reader into the euphoria of mania as well as its ugly, agitated rage and into "the lying down of desire" that is depression. Savageau articulates the joy of being consort to a god and the terror of being chased by witchcraft, the sound of voices that are always chattering in your head, the smell of wet ashes that invades your home, the perception that people are moving in slow motion and death lurks at every turnpike, and the feeling of being loved by the universe and despised by everyone you've ever known. Central to the journey out of the Crazywoods is the sensitive child who becomes a poet and writer who finds clarity in her art and a reason to heal in her grandchildren. Her journey reveals the stigma and the social, personal, and economic consequences of the illness but reminds us that the disease is not the person. Grounded in Abenaki culture, Savageau questions cultural definitions of madness and charts a path to recovery through a combination of medications, psychotherapy, and ceremony. &nbsp;

Out of the Crazywoods (American Indian Lives)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

University Of Nebraska Press

In "Mother/Land", Savageau weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance, revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich in meaning for Abenaki people. Mother/Land is beaded with gems from her mother's jewel box-poems that tell stories of her mother's life and death, and the complexities of love and survival.

Mother/Land (Earthworks)

Poetry

Folio Pub. Corp.

Cheryl Savageau writes of poverty, mixed ancestry, nature, and family in poems that are simultaneously tough and tender, and salted with a rich folk humor from her Abenaki and French Canadian ancestry.

Dirt Road Home

Curbstone Books

As a parent of a missionary you may feel that missing your child and your grandchildren signals a lack of faith. Please realize your conflicting emotions have real causes that can and should be talked about. It is possible to stay connected with your missionary and your grandchildren in meaningful ways and you can sustain and build those relationships despite the miles that separate. Not only can you survive as a POM— you can thrive! Whether you’re the parent of a missionary recruit or a parent of an experienced missionary, you’ll benefit from the authors’ research and personal experience as they present a comprehensive plan for understanding missionary life, navigating the holidays, grandparenting long-distance and saying good-bye well. Parents of Missionaries equips you with the understanding, attitudes and skills you need to forge a vibrant new identity as a POM. Combining a counselor’s professional insight and a parent’s personal journey, plus ideas and stories from dozens of missionaries and POMs, Parents of Missionaries is a valuable tool for missions mobilizers and educators as well as parents. The authors contend that proclaiming the gospel and making disciples was not meant to eclipse the loving family bonds God ordained. The POM experience amounts to a journey through change, pain and adjustment. Wherever you are on that journey, Parents of Missionaries will encourage you and help you thrive and stay connected with your children and grandchildren serving cross-culturally.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Authentic USA

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Parents of Missionaries: How to Thrive and Stay Connected When Your Children and Grandchildren Serve Cross-Culturally

Muskrat Will Be Swimming

Muskrat Will Be Swimming

Out of the Crazywoods (American Indian Lives)

Mother/Land (Earthworks)

Dirt Road Home

Parents of Missionaries: How to Thrive and Stay Connected When Your Children and Grandchildren Serve Cross-Culturally