Teens > Choices & Transitions

Peyton Shaw is 12 years old and wrote this book when she was 11. Her poems give the fresh perception of the world and her experiences through words. Her poems tell the story of the world through the eyes of the next generation.

Role models are a huge component to how young children grow and progress in life. Kayla is a young teenager who is dealing with so much coming at her at once. Social media, school, fashion, boys, trends, culture, puberty and the pressures to be something she really isn’t. She shares her story as a teenager, the struggles she goes through and trying to find the right role models to shape her future. As she tries to understand and figure herself out, there are role models that she can’t relate to on her television screen and magazine covers. It isn’t until she forms a women’s group through her guidance counselor in her school where she starts to see role models in different facets. She ...

I Choose is a 5 week discussion workbook to help youth with learning about self and decision making. I often hear people say they wish they understood more things in their youth. They wish they learned how to think and make better choices. They wish they really understood how the choices they were making would affect them. They wish so many things that really do not matter now, because they cannot turn back the hands of time - NO one can. All we can do is learn from our past and try not to make the same mistakes in our future. I know there were some things I just did not know because I was not learning it in school and it was not a topic we discussed at home. Some things you are expect ...