Taste Berries for Teens Journal: My Thoughts on Life, Love and Making a Difference (Taste Berries Series) - Softcover

Youngs, Bettie B.; Youngs, Jennifer Leigh

9781558747685: Taste Berries for Teens Journal: My Thoughts on Life, Love and Making a Difference (Taste Berries Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558747680 ISBN 13: 9781558747685

Publisher: Hci, 2000

Taste Berries for Teens deftly combined teen contributions and responses with the commentary and sensitive advice of adult coauthors, showing teens that we each can make life better through our love and compassion.

Designed as a companion piece for Taste Berries for Teens, this journal offers teens space to write about their own feelings on self-worth; friendship; love and relationships; how to create an attitude for life success; how to decide what to do in life; how to give, share and make a difference; and how to cope with stress-filled and embarrassing moments. In Taste Berries for Teens Journal, coauthors Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D., and Jennifer Leigh Youngs will also provide commentary to help readers use the journal to sort out their feelings, responsibly deal with their difficulties and effectively solve their problems. Teens will be able to use this journal not only to express their innermost feelings, explore unlimited possibilities and describe their fondest dreams, but also-and even more important-to turn those possibilities and dreams into reality. This journal is sure to become the trusted companion and guide of all who use it, as they journey toward making their lives better and brighter.

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About the Author:

Taste Berries for Teens. She has appeared frequently on CNN, NBC Nightly News and Oprah. Numerous national publications such as The Washington Post and RedbookSafeguarding Your Teenager from the Dragons of Life, Taste-Berry Tales, Gifts of the Heart and the award-winning Values from the Heartland.

PART 1 Who I Am:

Creating an Identity of My Own Our life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark. Chinese Proverb I Am . . . Accept Me as I Am . . . Who Am I ? . . .

The Paintbrush I keep my paintbrush with me, wherever I may go,
In case I need to cover up, so the real me doesn't show.
I'm so afraid to show you me; afraid of what you'll do,
I'm afraid you'll laugh or say mean things; afraid I might lose you.
I'd like to remove all the layers, to show you the real, true me,
But I want you to try to understand; I need you to like what you see.
So if you'll be patient and close your eyes, I'll remove the coats real slow,
Please understand how much it hurts, to let the real me show.
Now that my coats are all stripped off, I feel naked, bare and cold,
And if you still find me pleasing, you are my friend, pure as gold.
I need to save my paintbrush though, and hold it in my hand,
I need to keep it handy in case someone doesn't understand.
So please protect me, my dear friend, and thanks for loving me true,
And please let me keep my paintbrush with me, until I love me, too.

Lee Ezell, Taste Berries for Teens

�2008. Bettie B. Youngs, Jennifer Leigh Youngs. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Taste Berries for Teens Journal. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442

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