Would you like for your children to learn and display old fashioned moral behavior characteristics such as telling the truth, accepting responsibility for their own actions, displaying kindness to others, judging others by what is inside rather than their outward appearance, and to look for and follow God’s plan for their lives?
P. L. Rainey has spent over forty years working with children and parents to help them develop those traits and to help them find the path to the future that the Lord had planned for them. She now writes short, engaging stories for parents, teachers, and counselors to use as tools to teach those behaviors to their own or other children.
Ms. Rainey is a mother of three and a grandmother of five who lives on a farm in central Arkansas with her husband of almost fifty years, Abby the dog and Tigger the cat (as in the book). Yes, those characters do truly exist! She has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a Master of Science in Community Service Counseling and is licensed to teach secondary science and as a guidance counselor in grades K-12 in Arkansas. After college graduation, she spent eight years as a community mental health director and follow-up counselor during which time she actually served briefly as a juvenile probation officer.
Feeling it necessary to leave that position to seek a more appropriate career for a mother of three small children, she obtained her real estate sales license and spent three years in real estate sales as an office manager actually keeping her children with her in the office while working toward teaching certification. She then spent five years as a junior high school teacher, three years as an elementary school guidance school counselor, and twenty-five years as a high school guidance counselor.
After retirement, she began spending her time traveling with her husband, volunteering in several programs in her church, and developed a volunteer program for local elementary schools as part of the church outreach program. As part of that program, she spent time at the schools listening to struggling readers read aloud to her. While doing this she felt led to create books. These stories came to her along with the urge to record them for others to enjoy and use.
In the process of raising her own children, enjoying her own grandchildren, teaching, and counseling at all levels, books always played an important part in teaching morals and values and helping those who had gone astray to find their way home. The author saw from experience that books can and do make a difference in shaping children’s lives and her desire is for P. L. Rainey books to be read and used by as many parents, teachers, and counselors as possible to bring old fashioned moral values to future generations.
