The Power of Your Child’s Imagination by Charlotte Reznick PhD

The Power of Your Child’s Imagination by Charlotte Reznick PhD

(How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success)

We all know children that have things that we consider behavioral issues, some have bedwetting issues, trouble sleeping, headaches and stomachaches, anxiety and fear, trouble dealing with divorce of their parents and/or loss, anger frustration, problems in school, a hard time concentrating, arguments with siblings and schoolmates and much more. Frequently parents turn to medication or discipline – but how often do these things actually work?

I am a big fan of any alternative treatment options – so when Dr Reznick contacted me about doing a virtual tour with us to promote her book, I was very excited. As soon as I saw her press kit – I emailed several friends with children to tell them about this book.

To get an idea of the topics that are covered in The Power of Your Child’s Imagination – check out the table of contents.

Part One – The Tools

Chapter 1 – The Way Out Is Through the Inside

Chapter 2 – How to Get from here to There

Chapter 3 – The Benefits of Artistic Expression

Chapter 4 – Grown-Ups Need Tools, Too

Part Two – Putting the Tools to Work

Chapter 5 – Everyone Deserves to be Happy

Chapter 6 – When Life is Making Your Child Sick

Chapter 7 – The Bogeyman and Other Scary Stuff

Chapter 8 – Bedtime

Chapter 9 – Why Does Everyone Keep Leaving

Chapter 10 – When Good Kids Do Bad Things

Chapter 11 – Go For the Gold – Celebrate the Bronze

Chapter 12 – Can’t We All Just Get Along?

In the first part of the book, Charlotte Reznick shares her tools on how to help your child not only survive in a stressful  and difficult world – but it can help them to thrive – without drugs. Learn what tools she recommends – help your child learn to be creative and to use their imagination to the full. I love the technology that we have, but too many children and adults don’t show a lot of creativity. As a child and adult, I loved being creative and have always used my imagination – maybe too much.

Some of the conditions and ailments that these tools can help you with, include: stress induced headaches and stomachaches, bed wetting, inability to sleep, problems as school, problems with siblings, trouble concentrating, frustration ,anger issues, dealing with death or divorce, panic attacks, social anxiety, and much more.

Dr Reznick shares each tool – explains the details of each tool, explains how to prepare your child, provides notes to help you through the process with additional notes and she provides variations of each tool that you can use. She explains how children use each tool and gives troubleshooting tips. The book provides all of these details for each tool.

How many of these things does your children face on a regular basis? What would you give to find a drug free way to help them? The answer is here. After you read Part One and learn about the tools that Dr Reznick uses, move to Part Two and learn how she uses these tools to help the situations listed above.

I love the title of Chapter 5 – Everyone Deserves to be Happy. That is so true and we especially want our children to be happy and to help them move forward in life on the right foot.

In each chapter in Part Two – you see the instructions on how to put the tools to work, but that is just the beginning.  I love to see unique features in non-fiction and Dr Reznick provides these. She provides: quick tips to help you and your child, backtrack alerts and detailed “how to” instructions. While I appreciate all these elements, the backtrack alerts are wonderful – Dr Reznick gives you things to look for to see if you child is losing ground. This is wonderful and I think very beneficial because we all know how hard it can be to see changes in a person when we are around them all the time, but these are additional red flags to watch for and to understand there is a problem.

I think any parent, advisor, counselor, aunt, uncle etc who loves and helps children needs a copy of this book – and they need to read and use it. In closing, I have to share this quote from an 11 year old boy – to me, this proves this young man understands. He said, “The only way to love yourself is to believe and believe in yourself”.

Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass

I just completed the 4th book in the Body Farm novel series and its great. The review I read all said it was the best so far and I have to agree. I’ve enjoyed each book in this series and really enjoy the stories, the characters, the forensic details and much more.

For people who aren’t familiar with these books – they are a collaboration between Dr Bill Bass (from the University of Tennessee and the founder of “the Body Farm”) and Jon Jefferson (author, director, producer). They are both awesome people and they have collaborated on 6 books to date – unless I’ve missed any others. They have the Body Farm fiction series and also the Body Farm non fiction books – all center around Dr Bass’ experiences as a forensic anthropologist.

This is the 4th book in the fiction series and you can read each individually, but each story builds on the last and I like all the additional detail I bring to the story since I’ve read them all. BUT do NOT let that stop you from checking out this new book if you haven’t read the others. You can always go back and read them later

This book is set in Tennessee and it is centered around an interesting death in Oak Ridge – the home of the atomic bomb. I love novels that share real history and this book includes a lot of history and detail about what happened in this small town in the mountains in the 40s – before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That history is woven into the story very well and we meet Beatrice – who is our narrator about much of the intimate history that took place in her life in Oak Ridge. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

All of the Dr Bass stories include interesting and unusual deaths – but I would expect no less This book is no exception. In the beginning of the book, Dr Brockton (the main character based on Dr Bass) is called to a crime scene and the dead body is frozen in the water in a pool. In true Dr Bass fashion – he uses his beloved chain saw to cut the body out of the ice.  The body is removed from the pool – but the chainsaw is also lost in the pool. That is only the first mishap. The body is taken back to the morgue and during the autopsy, it is discovered that the body died from the inside out – and a radioactive pellet is discovered inside the body. That all happens in the first 4 chapters.

There are so many details I’d like to share, but I don’t want to give too much away. However I will share some tidbits -

1 – the chain saw isn’t the only thing in the bottom of the pool

2 – the radioactive pellet stirs up a series of complications

3 – there are a second and third dead body as the story progresses

4 – Dr Brockton meets a woman who looks very much like his lady love that was killed in an earlier book

5 – Miranda (Dr B’s able assistant) meets a charming young man – and they bump heads early in on

6 – a roll of film in the freezer holds clues to spies and murder

7 – Beatrice may not be who she appears to be

8 – Dr Brockton’s new lady friend has a detailed history

9 – we even get a tour of the sewer lines in Oak Ridge

Highly recommended for people who like mysteries, murder mysteries, forensic detail, historic locations and events in fiction and anyone who just likes a really good story. Can’t wait for the next book