Library News: September 5th, 2024
As families are adjusting to students being back in school this month, the library is highlighting two new nonfiction books that parents may find helpful during challenging moments!
You'll Make It (And They Will Too): Everything No One Talks About When You're Parenting Teens by Amy Betters-Midtvedt. The author, a mom with five kids ages twelve to twenty-two living at home, found that parenting teens challenged everything she thought it meant to be a “good" mom. In the unraveling and mess, however, came the building of something new and more beautiful than she could have imagined - an incredible sense of love, hope, joy, and relationship. This book is as much about navigating the minefields of anxiety and mental health as it is about setting curfews, convincing kids to bring dishes back to the kitchen, and deciding whose turn it is to have the car keys. Amy writes about dancing in the kitchen with soon-to-be adult kids who are taller than you, making appointments with a therapist and a college admission counselor in the same week, and helping kids cling to faith even as they reject the pew on Sunday mornings. Through stories steeped in hope and prayer of both her professional and personal parenting journey. Amy shares words of comfort, prayers, a path forward, and ways to celebrate the beauty in your teens in all that they are, just as God made them. Each chapter will leave you equipped, encouraged, and less alone by guiding you through how to listen to your own heart when parenting your teens.
Raising Resilience: How to Help Our Children Thrive in Times of Uncertainty by Tovah P. Klein Phd
Whether it’s national or global events affecting our sense of safety or stressors in our day-to-day lives, we are constantly confronted with situations that threaten the wellbeing of our children. Thankfully, there is good news that has not yet been reflected in the headlines: we can mitigate the effect of such rampant uncertainty by guiding our children to manage adversity and become more resilient. The key is parental involvement. Raising Resilience is a lifeline for every family contending with life’s many stresses and traumas—from the most commonplace to the most devastating—including peer conflicts, divorce, family tensions, death, moving, academic struggles, and larger personal and national events. Using clinical data and building on evidence-based interventions to offset and heal from traumatic events, she shares a five-point plan with actionable strategies, illustrative stories, and conversation prompts so parents can guide their children to become resourceful, adaptive, and able to grow and flourish now and into the future.
Upcoming Events at the Marcellus Township Wood Memorial Library: Tuesdays:
Creative Social Circle: Tuesdays at 5 PM, starting September 10th. Bring your crafts or work with our craft supplies! Enjoy coffee, tea and the company of other adults while you work on your creative projects.
Southwest Michigan Reads: Tobin Buhk, September 24th at 6:30 PM at Arclight Brewing Company in Watervliet. Join readers from all over southwest Michigan to hear Tobin Buhk, author of Killer Women of Michigan cover the darker side of regional history. The true crime author will be signing books following the presentation. Food truck, Hendo’s BBQ will be on site beginning at 6 PM.
Wednesdays:
Support Group for Parents of Challenging Kids, the 2nd Wednesday of every month— September 11th at 9 AM Parenting isn’t easy. If you are feeling overwhelmed, join others to gain valuable support coping strategies and information about community resources.
Preschool Story Hour, Wednesdays at 11 AM starting September 11th. Join us for music, movement, stories & crafts intended for ages 0-5 and their parents/caregivers. Thursdays:
First Thursday Book Club, September 5, October 3, 2024, 12 NOON-1 PM. Join others to chat about what you have been reading or to get suggestions from others. Comic Book Workshop, September 19th at 4 PM. Do Art Productions will cover the foundations of creating your own comics with this interactive and entertaining program aimed at ages 6-15.
Community Read. September 19 at 6 PM. September’s Community Read will be focused on Lisa Wingate’s The Book of Lost Friends. We’ll listen to the author being interviewed and then join in a discussion about her book. If you would like us to obtain a copy of the book for you in time for this experience, just contact the library!
A Trail of Money and Death, September 26th at 5 PM. A virtual presentation on the Morris Murders by the author of A Trail of Money and Death, offering another perspective on the unsolved murders of Esther and Charles Morris in 1879. Fridays:
Great Marcellus Bake Off, Friday, September 6th from 5-7 PM. In partnership with the Marcellus Home Arts Club, we’ll be hosting the annual bake off to decide who is the best baker in town! Contact the library for information on how to enter the competition as a baker. To help judge the contest, stop in during First Friday to buy sample tickets to taste the treats before casting your vote!
Lego at the Library, Fridays 3:00-4:30 PM. Build & create with our Lego & Duplo collections! All ages are welcome!
Saturdays:
Tech Time, Saturdays, September 7th, 14th, 21st, From 10AM-1PM. Are you struggling with your phone? Do you have trouble navigating the internet? Do you need help with mel.org, the Libby App or the Marcellus Library Catalog? Drop in the library to ask Justin your IT related questions and learn to navigate your device or our computers!