Podcasts Kids & Family Parenting Don't Mom Alone Podcast Villages of Hope and Help :: DeVon and Paulette Franklin [Ep 371]

Villages of Hope and Help :: DeVon and Paulette Franklin [Ep 371]

Published: June 13, 2022, 5:35 a.m.

Tragedy struck and Paulette Franklin could have given up hope. Instead, she used it as a chance to \u201cbring together the village of hope and help\u201d from her extended family, namely her aunts, who lived both near and far. They rallied around Paulette and her boys through presence and connection. Make no mistake, single parenting was still hard work, but by clinging to her faith in God and the village around her, she and her boys thrived.\xa0

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Though this bond with extended family was knitted together well before Paulette\u2019s husband passed away, she had to let them in, she had to let them help. For Paulette\u2019s middle son, DeVon, and his brothers, their aunts\u2019 houses became places of refuge and connection that they still rely on to this day.\xa0 DeVon and his aunts tell their compelling and encouraging story in his audiobook, It Takes a Woman, available now on Audible. Through the audiobook all of our villages are enlarged, all of their wisdom can be ours.

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