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Teaching Children Self-Confidence Through Service to
Others
(Nov,
2011) – Children today face immense pressure to fit in with their peers. This
pressure is leading to record rates of depression among preteens and teenagers.
Parents look for ways to build their children’s self-esteem; however, teens
look to their peers and popular culture for acceptance rather than their
parents. This puts parents in a challenging situation.
Luckily,
there is something parents can do to help steer their child toward
self-acceptance: give them Talon- Come
Fly With Me, the first book of a series from author Gigi Sedlmayer.
“Most children of this age group have issues
with acceptance and this is explored and resolved in a positive manner within
the story line of the Talon series,” Sedlmayer said. “Matica shows children and
teens that they can overcome great obstacles with love, patience and a selfless
attitude toward helping others and experience exciting adventure on the way.”
Talon-
Come Fly With Me, the first book
in the series is about the life of nine-year-old blond Matica and her condor
friends Tamo and Tima in a remote village on a dry plateau in the Andes of
Peru. She moved here with her Australian missionary and schoolteacher parents
when she was five years old. Ever since she could remember she faced cruel
rejection because of the growth handicap that traps her in a body the size of a
two-year-old. Because of that, the local Indians wouldn’t accept her into their
community or allowed her to play with their children.
But raising Tamo and Tima’s chick,
Talon, and letting him grow into the majestic flyer after the fight with the
poachers, Matica soon becomes very popular.
Two months later the most
unbelievably amazing thing Matica had dreamed of ever since she first
befriended the condors, actually unfolds. That changes her life so completely
that she can now see a positive side to her handicap. The Indians then fully
accept the new Matica into their community.
Talon, on the wing, the second book in the Talon series
describes her incredible time with her beloved condors. Matica is now happy
that she is small and doesn’t want to have it any other way. She is accepted,
she is loved and she can have the incredible adventure with her beloved
condors. What more could she have? All her rejection, all her hardship is over.
Talon, flight for life, the third book in
the Talon series, describes her walk with her father to the next big city of
Cajamarca to purchase some food, medication and the tickets for their six
months holiday in Australia. On the way she misses her condors terrible, but
still has an adventurous open mind walking with her father through rain
forests, plateaus and other parts of the beautiful county of Peru, seeing
macaws, toucans, even making friend with a monkey and a puma. And still the
condors visiting them on the way to and from Cajamarca.
On
the way back they visit an old Incan dwelling. And there a nasty, huge spider
bit her father on his ankle. Affright and disgusted, she kills it. But not only
the one, she had to kill several and Tamo as well. Her father had a very bad
reaction of the bite. His leg swells to double its size. He becomes very ill
and delirious with fever. Devastated and shocked, Matica doesn’t know what to
do and calls for her condors. Soon after they come and even save her father’s
life.
Adventure
never stops.
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