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THE JOURNEY
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WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
   Mangrove Seed Chronicles
: Learning To Trust
uses the biological journey of a mangrove seed as a metaphor to represent the human journey from childhood innocence into adulthood.
A baby mangrove seed is washed out into the ocean during a hurricane. Fear engulfs the mangrove seed. It is powerless against the strong waves, has no directions for surviving in the ocean. The seed has lost all its friends and safety of the mangrove forest.
Through many animal characters visited on four mangrove islands, the lost seed learns to balance its fears with trust. The book provides principles of balanced living that parents, teachers, and grandparents may use to dialogue with children.
The 64 page, four color illustrated book was published in 2007 for children of all ages. It can be especially beneficial to children ages 3-13 because it includes many thought provoking questions for personal reflection and group discussion.
As a blueprint, Mangrove Seed Chronicles can be a catalyst and guide for character and values education. As a fable, it can encourage both children and adults to apply the lessons to their personal life situations.
There are no absolute answers in the book, only guideposts to the personal truth
hidden within each child.
Ultimately, Mangrove Seed Chronicles promotes serious
reflection, dialogue and, hopefully, ethical personal living
in our imbalanced, stressful, and fearful world.
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BALANCING FEAR WITH TRUST
Children must first learn
to trust themselves;then, second, learn to trust others
and their environment.
Without a solid foundation of
interior S(s)elf trust, a child will not have the motivational courage
to establish personal
intellectual and emotional
boundaries that are necessary
for their authentic individual
expression of Truth.
Without the clear authority
of inner trust, children will blow with the winds of subjective,
external authority and opinion.
Without a solid grounding in personal trust, all other "moral/character values" may sprout,
but will not flourish.
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THE FLOATING MANGROVE SEED
The actual journey of a biological mangrove seed is truly a unique story. It can float thousands of miles, and through many violent ocean storms, before it sets dowm its taproot. In time, it grows into a island of many trees.
There are basic three types of mangrove trees, red,black, and white. They form an ecological community that not only provides for their own survival and growth, but also provides a home for sea and bird life that make their home on the mangrove islands.
The hope of the author is that Mangrove Seed Chronicles will help each reader to fertilize, water, and weed their life's journey, and that they may live a life grounded in consciously chosen, personal truth.
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