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    Left to Their Devices...What's Left?: Poems and Prayers for Spiritual Parents Doing Their Best in a Digital World (And Leaving God the Rest)
    Left to Their Devices...What's Left?: Poems and Prayers for Spiritual Parents Doing Their Best in a Digital World (And Leaving God the Rest)
    Left to Their Devices...What's Left?: Poems and Prayers for Spiritual Parents Doing Their Best in a Digital World (And Leaving God the Rest)
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    Left to Their Devices...What's Left?: Poems and Prayers for Spiritual Parents Doing Their Best in a Digital World (And Leaving God the Rest)

    By Gloria Degaetano

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    Are spiritual parents uniquely ordained to lead a movement for wiser use of media and digital devices for our children?

    Gloria DeGaetano thinks so. In Left to Their DevicesWhats Left? you will find provocative poems and compelling prayers that capture the angst, fear, guilt, confusion, and frustration of parenting in todays screen machine world. You will also find solace and wisdom, hope and inspiration.

    Use this book as a personal meditation. Discuss it at church. Share it with your book club or PTA. Show it to a relative whose child struggles with computer addiction. Give it to new parents, encouraging careful future decisions.

    Use this book to make a positive change in your life and in the lives of those you love. Left to Their DevicesWhats Left? is a spiritual call to actionfrom your heart. Heed the call. Take action.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJul 24, 2012
    ISBN9781449753375
    Left to Their Devices...What's Left?: Poems and Prayers for Spiritual Parents Doing Their Best in a Digital World (And Leaving God the Rest)
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    Gloria Degaetano

    Gloria DeGaetano, M.Ed., is the founder and CEO of the Parent Coaching Institute (PCI) that provides Parent Coach Certification® for family support professionals as well as coaching services to parents and specialized programs to companies and organizations. An internationally acclaimed educator, author, and parent coach, Gloria has been a middle school and high school classroom teacher, an elementary reading specialist, and a school district administrator directing reading and language arts programs, K-8. She has taught at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Washington in teacher training and graduate programs. Her specialties and interests include family media/digital literacy. psycholinguistics and literacy development, personality and learning styles, intrinsic motivation, systems thinking applications, Appreciative Inquiry, and brain-compatible practices in teaching, learning, and parenting. Gloria is the mother of two adult sons and lives with her husband in Bellingham, WA, a poster city for the Pacific Northwest.

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