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Sticky Fingers, Sticky Minds provides quick reads yet profound insight for anyone who loves a child and hopes to help that child become a secure, competent person who treats others kindly, serves their community unselfishly, and meets their greatest potential--whatever that might be for any individual child. Becky Cerling Powers is a veteran homeschool grandma whose stories not only inspire but also give practical tips for keeping kids engaged and growing--healthy in body, mind, and heart. From practical tips on teaching kids to cook to the deep wisdom of making your home emotionally safe, these stories will encourage and equip you to make the most of the short season when the child you love is still young. In these updated parenting columns originally published in the El Paso Times and Clinton Herald, Becky explainshow to read to a babyhow to get kids interested in mathwhat to do with kids so the information they read sticks in their mindshow to tell when you are setting kids up instead of helping them learnhomeschool secrets any parent can use to improve a child's academic progresshow to let kids cure their own boredom and much, much more.

Laura Richards was a shy American nurse who moved to a remote North China village in 1929 to take in castaway babies. Through 22 years of famines, bandit invasions and wars, she lived in the same poor conditions as the Chinese peasants, while managing to save the lives of nearly 200 destitute children. So why did she refuse the Chinese Communist Party’s offer to make her a national heroine? Laura Richards’ story was too dangerous to tell when she returned to the U.S. in 1951. But when she died thirty years later, the old letters, photographs, and scattered bits of memoir that she left behind were so intriguing to her second cousin Becky Cerling Powers, that Becky began a 25-year quest to discover her quiet relative’s amazing story. Eventually that quest led Becky to China and the orphans themselves. Today, over half a century after Laura left China, her story and her children’s story can finally be told.

You know when I sit You know when I stand You know every move I make God knows everything about you. God delights in you and watches over you for good. This powerful, poetic retelling of David’s beloved Psalm 139 encourages kids and adults alike in their spiritual journeys with an all-powerful, all-perceptive God.