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LDS Woman's Website Boosts Self Esteem
PROVO, UTAH -- Anne Bright, a Utah-based LDS Church member, has
brought her considerable training and experience to bear in helping
children gain self esteem. She has started www.bzlearning.com to produce
products that promote happiness in family life, self-esteem, and the
ability to use free agency wisely when making life's choices. She
hopes to eventually use the website to open a childcare center.
Bright's experience comes in part from her fourth child, Becky, who
was born with Cystic Fibrosis. Soon after Becky's birth, her husband
left the family, and Anne was forced to work to support the family.
Eventually, her daughter's condition worsened to the point that she
had to stop work, and seek medical assistance. That led to a
difficult choice, "After much prayerful thought," she says, "I felt
guided to replace my job with further study. I took a degree in
Psychology."
She completed her degree, and eventually started lecturing on social
work and child development. Then Becky passed away, and Anne spent a
long time healing from her daughter's tragic death. Eventually, as
she recovered, "I began to feel guilty for sitting on ideas for
products that could benefit the world," she recalls. "It was
especially difficult to work on them because it was a reminder that
Becky was no longer there to help and enjoy the results. Then I
became aware that she, of all people, would want me doing things that
would bring happiness to others and myself. So I began again, with
the Lord's help bringing to reality those ideas Becky and I had
designed together."
Now BZ Learning produces easy to use, books, posters, coloring books,
paper dolls and games to help a child's self-esteem grow as he
learns, through play, the joy of working and communicating his
feelings and emotions with others.
Source:
Single Mother of Five Helps Children Gain Self-Esteem
Mahonri.org 17Jan02 I2
By Anne Bradshaw
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