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The IT Book is from my heart and much of it is from my life. I think if there is any one thing that children of all ages need it is encouragement. With this in mind I have written The IT Book Short Stories of Encouragement for Children of All Ages. I called it The IT Book because the stories are titled LISTEN TO IT, LOVE IT, EXPLORE IT, OVERCOME IT and so forth. I never realized what an interesting life I have had until I wrote this book. I have always enjoyed words, languages and writing. Humor is a strong point in our family and I am happy to see my sense of humor coming out in some of these stories.Like our parents, I have always had a great appreciation for beauty in any form: in music, in words that uplift, in nature, and in the kindness in people which manifests in so many ways. My husband, Bill Mercer, wrote several of these stories. I think you will find them delightful. It is my hope and prayer that this little book will uplift you in some way.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	06 octobre 2011
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781462400065
Langue	English

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The IT Book
Short Stories of Encouragement for Children of All Ages
Kathie Gedden

Copyright © 2011 Kathie Gedden

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0006-5 (e)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0005-8 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937277

Printed in the United States of America

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 9/27/2011
Contents
Acknowledgments
LISTEN TO IT
PICTURE IT
LOVE IT
TREASURE IT
SPEAK IT
ENJOY IT
TRY IT
TEACH IT
LEARN IT
GROW IT
GIVE IT
APPRECIATE IT
REMEMBER IT
SING IT
EARN IT
MAIL IT
OVERCOME IT
EXPLORE IT
DO IT
DAYDREAM IT
COLLECT IT
REACH IT
FIX IT
COOK IT
PLAY IT
SEE IT
WATCH IT
INVENT IT
CHOOSE IT
ADVERTISE IT
READ IT
SNEAK IT
RELAX IT
FOCUS ON IT
NOTICE IT
CHERISH IT
QUOTE IT
LAUGH IT
PRAY IT
LIVE IT

To my mother, Katherine Flynn Gedden, who often encouraged me to write, and who could well have been a writer herself.

To my husband, Bill Mercer, the joy and encourager of my life.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to my friend,
Jessica Krakow,
for editing my book and
for her invaluable suggestions.
LISTEN TO IT
Once upon a time there was a little boy who didn’t like to go to school. He thought that school was hard. He wanted to stay outside and play. He didn’t understand why people go to school. He thought school was boring.
One day when he was sitting on a bench at recess, a friend of his came and sat down next to him. This little boy enjoyed school. He loved to learn new things. He liked to do new things. He felt sorry that his friend dreaded going to school. He decided to tell him his secret game, a game he made up in his own mind. This game was the reason he liked school.
Here is the secret game that he shared with his friend. This is a different kind of a game. It is different because he played this game with himself. Every morning before school started, he remembered his game. He began playing his game the very moment that the teacher began to talk. His game was a challenge to himself. He challenged himself to listen to every word that the teacher said all day. He tried never to miss a single word that the teacher said. He played this game all day every school day. Then an amazing thing happened. His game started getting easier. He started enjoying it more and more, and doing his homework started getting easier and easier because he knew so many of the answers. He had learned them during the day playing his listening game. Then he realized that he was learning lots of new and interesting things every day by listening.
He was excited about going to school, about learning to read, about all the new people and places he would learn about when he could read books. He looked forward to all the things he could learn to do, and to make, and to explore.
He began to think that the world is a place of wonder, and that every day could be a challenge to learn more. He knew that he had learned to love to learn.
Listening was his secret game.
The other little boy who thought school was boring watched his friend and began to listen.

LISTEN TO IT
PICTURE IT
A little girl moved with her family to a house right next door to a golf course. She was glad because she wanted to learn to play golf. Her father bought her a set of golf clubs, just the right size for her. She went with her father, then with her brother, then with her friends to play golf. But she never could hit the ball into the hole. She watched other people playing golf. They always hit the ball into the hole at least some of the time. She wondered why she couldn’t seem to do it.
One day she went to the golf course with her mother. Her mother said, “Try putting the ball just a few inches from the hole. Take a good look at that hole, then at the ball. Then close your eyes and picture that ball and that hole in your mind. Then in your mind see yourself slowly hitting that ball into that hole. Keep picturing that in your mind many times until tomorrow. Tomorrow we will come back and try again.”
Tomorrow came and the little girl and her mother returned to the golf course. The little girl had faithfully, calmly pictured herself hitting the ball into the hole. She placed the ball in the same place where she had put it the day before. Then, still concentrating on the ball and the hole, she slowly hit the ball and it went into the hole. Nearly every time that she concentrated, the ball went into the hole.
Each time that she went to the golf course, she placed the ball a little farther away from the hole. She pictured this not only when she was at the golf course but many times throughout the day.
She started really enjoying picturing herself successfully, slowly hitting the ball into the hole.

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