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Summary: A great gift for the young lady in your life!
Review: Celia Straus wrote this snappy little book for her daughters, and it shows a mother's love. Each page contains a small "prayer" written for a teenage girl, all of them dealing with courage and becoming (at least that's how a father sees it :-). All of them are written in enchanting verse, though not all of them are necessarily directed towards God. For example, on page 103, there is "I am not helpless/I am not weak/I will not shatter/I will not weep/I stand alone/Yet I stand strong/I can be me/Without being wrong."Overall, I found this to be a wonderful little book, a great gift for the young lady in your life!
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Summary: This is the perfect gift from mother to daughter
Review: I bought this book because I could relate to the introduction where Celia Straus explains how she had trouble communicating with her teenage daughter and started writing poems to express what she wanted to say. How many mothers suddenly find they cannot talk to their daughters and their daughters won't talk to them? Every mother I know who has a daughter in her early teens is experiencing this problem. Prayers On Your Pillow offers the perfect solution. A book of prayers written like poems that, because they were written for Celia's daughter, appeal to all girls. My daughter loved this book. She reads it every night. And best of all, we are talking again. I owe it all to Prayers On My Pillow.
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: I bought this book for my daughter two weeks ago and for the first time in a long time we are communicating again. We read these lovely poems together at night before she goes to sleep -- she is twelve -- and talk about her feelings. Our family is jewish, but it makes no difference what religion you are to appreciate this book. Prayers On My Pillow speaks to all girls and their mothers everywhere.
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Summary: This is a book of poetry for your daughter's inner self.
Review: I just bought this book for my daughter as a graduation present and she and I have both already read all the poems in it. Now it stays on her pillow! I don't know why these simple poems connect so instantly to the soul, but they seem to touch a cord inside. My daughter, who is 12, has thanked me more for this book than anything I have given her in years. For any girl who is going through an identity crisis, this book is a great help.
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Summary: A Real Source of Comfort and Encouragement for Girls
Review: I purchased this book for 12 and 10 year old daughters. I thought that perhaps we could read a prayer each night as a devotion and that it would give us an opportunity to talk about issues in their lives. It has done that and more. My oldest daughter now refers to it frequently, whenever she needs a lift or a little extra encouragement. I also purchased the sequel and I rate it equally well. I have given this book as gifts to my daughter's friends for their 13th birthday, and they have all loved it.
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Summary: A communications tool between moms and girls that works.
Review: I read Prayers On My Pillow when the author came to talk at my children's school book fair. I can't begin to explain the power of these prayer poems except to say that they touch the child in all of us. My daughter who is 13 insisted I buy her the book which she keeps next to her bed. The prayers are about all the problems and needs of young teenage girls from fear, loneliness, peer pressure, body image and courage to be herself. When we read the prayers together, I feel like I am communicating with her for the first time in years because the prayers make it possible to share the same emotions. This book mends the connections between girls and gives girls a way to handle their problems on their own.
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Summary: My daughter loves this book more than any book she has.
Review: If you want your daughter to talk to you again, get her Prayers On My Pillow. My thirteen year old,Jenny, and I were at complete odds with each other. I couldn't say anything she would listen to, and she would not talk to me except to argue. She was having lots of problems with her self confidence and with her friends. I heard about Prayers On My Pillow from my sister and bought it for Jenny. At first she wouldn't read it, but then she did. For the first time in months she talked to me about how she felt when she read them. We both cried together over the prayer about death because Jenny had recently lost her cat. This book has made all the difference in our relationship. The prayers are beautiful. They read like poems. I have told all my friends who have daughters to buy this book. It is a lifeline.
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Summary: Spiritual Lift
Review: My mom gave me this book a couple of years ago, and I just stuck it in my closet. Recently I was cleaning out my room and uncovered this book. I started reading the prayers inside. I looked for prayers that connected to my everyday life and that I could relate to. I typed up my favorite prayers on my computer, printed it out, and put it by my bed. Every night I read the prayers. One night, I was feeling lonely. I was reading through the prayers and I came across one that went like this:
I need someone to comfort me
To tell me it's okay
To stroke my hair
And kiss my cheek
To hold me tight when I feel weak
To make hurt go away.
I need someone to care for me
Someone who's always there
To take my hand
And wipe my tears
To stand on guard against my fears
To help when life's unfair.
I trust in God's great[...]love [...] for me
When I am all alone
To hear my cry
And fill my heart
With faith that I can do my part
And manage on my own.
I read it over and over, sobbing the whole time. About the fifteenth time, I was reading it and I just stopped. Something happened and I stopped crying. I just read it over again, this time without crying, and laid down in my bed. I felt so much better. I don't know what happened, but something about the prayers made me feel better.
These prayers have changed the way I feel spiritually. They have also given me a greater belief in God. This book provided me with the words I needed to get by. I highly reccommend trying it.
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Summary: This book is a window into the interior life of teenagers!
Review: This book really helped me. I read one prayer every night, and I fall asleep knowing that God is watching over me. It was really strange and alien to see myself devleping. But this wonderful book helped me through all my difficulties.
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Summary: Simplistic in style but a delite to read
Review: When I first saw this book, I passed it by since I am the mom of two boys. The next time I saw it, I was looking for a gift for a friend with three teenage daughters.(Her copy is well worn and she's buying extra's to give as gifts) Thumbing thru it, I returned to buy a copy for myself. "Dreams on Your Pillow" is inspirirational for any parent of teens and can be applied to boys,also, as they take the journey to manhood.
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