Life is a collection of big and little moments, and all are celebrated in this vibrant, moving keepsake—a perfect gift for graduations or other notable events.
A moment is made when everything that came before meets what is happening now. Each moment is new. It’s a song and how you hear it. It’s a sunny day and how you feel it.
In this exhilarating and meaningful book, all the happenings in a person’s life—the brave ones, the peaceful ones, the nervous, proud, and grateful ones—combine to make us who we are and to light the way to what’s next. It’s just the right read for a child who’s about to graduate from kindergarten, celebrate a birthday, or move to a new home, or even for a teenager on their way to college. Like Oh, the Places You’ll Go and The Wonderful Things You Will Be, this cherishable book brings joy and inspiration.--from the publisher
40 pages 978-0593695937 Ages 5-9
Keywords: life, living a life, daily living, new experiences, dealing with feelings, dealing with emotions, how things work, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, graduation gift
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Let's just start with this... Micah Player has this living a life thing nailed down.
Yes, here is a book for every child, every teen, every adult to hold on to for living well.
We know about mindfulness these days and breathing exercises and yoga. These are wonderful tools to help our children with challenges. And yet...
People like to say life is full of ups and downs. For some kids those downs get all the way to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. It hurts. It's hard. It stays with ya. It comes to school with you everyday and goes back home with ya every afternoon.
So, what if... what if your teacher read you a book and it opened a door for you to go to a new place. That new place is the moment of now.
Micah Player has looked hard at what a day and a week and a lifetime are made of and has invited us to see with our own eyes and our own hearts that "a moment is made when everything that came before meets what is happening now. Each moment is new."
I think a lot of kids if they hear this book read aloud to them again and again will be able to get their inner self to come to the present moment and make room for that life minute and hold onto it and build their lives of those moments.
This book can have a profound impact on a whole lottttta people, young and old.
You can't go back to those old moments and you can't leap ahead to see the new moments but you sure as heck can BE IN THIS MOMENT- you can feel it and you choose to smile, and you can laugh in it and you can learn in it and you can see yourself in it - just plain old you - in one big old precious moment.
Woohoo! No school counseling office should be without this treasure.
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
