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| - Page should be completed by the end of October. So check up in November to see the finished site! - New FAQ page up click here to see it! - PAPA'S LEGACY wins the prestigious merit award in the Midwest for content! - PAPA'S LEGACY wins the prestigious award within the nine state area! - An article on the book and its message appeared in the Parenting section of the Leader-Telegraph, Read a small part of it in the News Archive! - Joan Fleming appeared in BORDERS on September 20. Where she discussed the book and gave a short workshop. By Blythe Wachter Leader-Telegram staff Joan Fleming's Nine grandchildren will hear her stories even when she no longer is with them. Part of her legacy will be the audiotapes "Nana" makes with her husband, "Papa" Dick, for each child's birthday. Fleming, who lives in the town of Union and leads seminars around the country shares ways to strengthen ties between the generations in her new book, "Papa's Legacy: The Growing of GRANDchildren" (Beaver's Pond Press). She describes her book as "a collection of zestful family experiences that reveals some ways that we, as grandparents, can participate in the childgrowing process. " I want to see grandparents involved in more fun activities with their grandchildren that will leave good memories," she says. She wrote "Papa's Legacy" because she found few books for grandparents, and many of those were "preachy." "I wanted to write a book about joyful adventures with grandchildren," she says. Fleming shares stories such as the one about the audiotapes. That idea developed because one of the Flemings' four daughters asked them to create an audiotape for her daughter, Lucy. Lucy is blind, but the tape helped her know her grandparents by their voices. "That first tape grew to become a tradition in our family," Fleming writes. On the tapes the Flemings share family history such as the children's birth or their parents' wedding day. They sing, and Dick Fleming recites poetry. The tapes are the first birthday present the children open, Fleming says. "They listen to them over and over. We talk on every tape about how much we love them." Fleming writes about family activities from treasure hunts to family plays, from a family trivia game to Dick Fleming's "boot camps," a training course to help his grandsons become stronger and better individuals and learn to respect nature... |
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