Review: "Change Is The Cycle Of Life"............
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2013
I love this author's philosophy, his teachings and many years of working with children that have ADHD(Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)...It all comes through in his creative stories...The point of it all is to engage and capture their "attention" with rhyming or cute pictures...To be able to teach an underlying message and let children at different developmental stages in their lives, understand all the emotions they are going through..He even provides a guide of questions at the end of his books to help parents deal with difficulties....Now a big change or moving can be a devasting event in a small child's life..He is being uprooted from friends, security, familiarity and be afraid of what the future holds....This story teaches a child change can be a "good thing" because moving forward creates new pleasant memories that's how we learn new interesting facts of life...It also helps parents deal with children that are non-excepting of a change and are acting out..Nothing but constant positive reinforcement...Logan is a little boy that's grown up in a small town of Lakemere..Safe, peaceful, many friends and fun with his Dad fishing on the lake..At dinner one night Dad announces that they will be moving because of his job...Logan is shocked, crying and runs down to the lake...There he will meet a little "Hermit Crab" named Hermes that also upset because he has out grown his home..Will Hermes and Logan overcome the power of fear and be able to both move to new homes....This story is an excellent example to use because what child doesn't have a "hermit crab' or at least know of it's "cycle of life"...Highly recommended....