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Join Paul W. Reeves, Ed.D - a longtime teacher and school principal, and the father of three children - and his guests, as they discuss the world of parenting your children, from birth through age 100! Also included are excerpts and discussions of Paul's parenting book, "A PRINCIPAL'S FAMILY PRINCIPLES - Raising Your Kids to Be Happy and Healthy, While Enjoying Them to the Fullest".

On today's show, in addition to reading the chapter, "Jennifer's Story" from his book, sharing wisdom from others, and a bit of humor, Paul played Part 1 of his interview with KA HANCOCK.

KA HANCOCK,\xa0a highly successful author from Utah - and a former psychiatric nurse - will join us to discuss her books, including "Dancing On Broken Glass" and "The Duzy House of Mourning", as well as her upcoming release, "Ivy In Stills".\xa0

FROM HER WEBSITE:

"Ka Hancock\xa0is the\xa0author of the beloved novel DANCING ON BROKEN GLASS and\xa0newly released THE DUZY HOUSE OF MOURNING. Always intrigued by\xa0the human experience\xa0and how people navigate\xa0their unique challenges, Hancock\xa0began writing stories as a child, and never stopped. She discovered early\xa0that humanity is a tangled mystery, and that to understand our fellow travelers, and to thrive in\xa0difficult relationships,\xa0it helps to acknowledge truth, and then proceed accordingly.\xa0To support her writing habit, she became a nurse and settled in the realm of addiction and psychiatric medicine. She finds people-in all their complex and varied lifeforms-completely fascinating.\xa0

She lives in Utah with her husband. Her four children, who have multiplied at an impressive rate, keep her happily engaged with a whole new generation.

So, fun fact about me:\xa0I'm a messy writer and I like it that way. I'm super tidy everywhere else in my life, but my office is exactly how I like it. I don't like interruptions or noise, but I have a noisy hubs...who interrupts...a lot. Sigh. I love him.

Fun fact number two: I\xa0was ten\xa0when I wrote my first story. It was about a 4th grade substitute teacher I\xa0had while my beloved Mrs. Peeler went off and had a baby. (How could she!) I shocked myself with the degree of bottled up dislike I had for this poor guy, but in all fairness I can still, lo these many moons later, recall his effect on\xa0me. I wrote a story about him wherein he ended up dead. Dead! I\xa0know!\xa0What was wrong with me?\xa0And it filled me with such consuming\xa0turmoil\xa0that my pure little\xa0conscience could not take it. I'm not kidding, I could not erase fast enough. When I recovered, I gave the old meany a\xa0full-body\xa0rash and no fingernails which was infinitely\xa0easier to live with (for me, not him). But, oh the power!\xa0I was utterly addicted. At ten, I held life (and tormenting skin conditions) on the end of my trusty #2 pencil. I never looked back. I was a writer.\xa0A little twisted, obviously, but a writer.

Have you ever gone all in on something? Something that means the world to you, but not all that much to anyone else? It\u2019s a tricky place to be\u2014that jumping off place into whatever-happens-it\u2019s-on-me. I\u2019ve always found it much easier to hand responsibility to someone else, and blame them when it fails. At least where my books are concerned. That\u2019s my comfort zone. My job was\xa0writing. It was definitely not the mechanics of publishing, marketing, hustling, and selling myself. I've been quite happy to leave that to agents and editors and publishers and publicists and live my life as the semi-introvert that I imagine myself to be. And that worked out fine until my great agent left\xa0for an unturndownable opportunity, and my amazing editor abruptly left Simon & Schuster and Simon & Schuster didn't know what to do with me because I had no editor.\xa0

\u200bwww.kahancock.com