Growing Up

During the summer months when my granddaughters were young, they would come to stay awhile with me and my husband. They called our place, ‘Grandma and Grandpa Camp.’ We baked cookies, made ice cream, went swimming, sang, danced, and generally just had fun. Since both girls liked to draw, I wrote little verses for them to illustrate. It meant that we talked about issues which were ones my kindergarten children had voiced and which I had researched to find teachable answers. My desire as with all of the children I looked after was to help give each the confidence to recognize their uniqueness and develop a thoughtful, kind, loving and happy outlook on life.

Sandra Osborne was the middle child in a family of five siblings. She met her husband in high school and they have been married for fifty-seven years. After teaching young children for eight years, Sandra became a stay-at-home mother, raising her own children, Laura and Robert. When Rob was in grade six, Sandra returned to the classroom and taught kindergarten until retiring in 1998. Since then, Sandra and her husband have enjoyed travelling to many countries. The book was developed over several decades in order to clarify her own thoughts and to explain beliefs logically to children.