{"id":421,"date":"2023-11-06T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=421"},"modified":"2025-02-04T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:54:22","slug":"abcs-of-life-stories-of-tamika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2023\/11\/06\/abcs-of-life-stories-of-tamika\/","title":{"rendered":"ABCs of Life: Stories of Tamika"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ABCs OF LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stories of Tamika<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Bennie Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our lessons and beliefs on faith and spirituality begin with what we\u2019re taught as children. I remember those lessons being taught to me during Sunday School by Ms. Pleas. Though they grow and expand with knowledge over the years, our early years form the basis for who we are and whose we are. That being said, I present to you Bennie Brown\u2019s ABCs of Life: Stories of Tamika.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our central character is 11-year-old Tamika, a Black girl raised in a Christian home by her parents along with her younger sister Tasha. Throughout the book, as we follow Tamika\u2019s journey, Brown illustrates a different life value and teaching in a series of short stories, from \u201cA is for Attitude\u201d to \u201cZ is for Zeal.\u201d The scriptural texts come from the New International Version of the Bible, and they are interwoven into each story\/value to make it interesting, fun, and relevant for children. Tamika shares her dreams, her aspirations, and her understanding of the fruits of the Spirit as they relate to her daily life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tamika\u2019s walk isn\u2019t always easy; an example of this is the friction between her and a classmate known as Scary Barry. We see him at different times in the book, such as in \u201cL is for Love\u201d when Tamika has to figure out what kind of love to show him, and \u201cU is for Understanding,\u201d when she discovers why he acts out the way he does. At the end of the day, each story furthers her spiritual growth. And as in \u201cK is for Knowledge,\u201d knowledge is power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As children learn by example, I love the positive role models Brown established for Tamika&#8211;her parents and Mrs. Davis, Tamika\u2019s Sunday School teacher. I highly recommend this book for Sunday School classes as well as home; as one who read to my son every night when he was little, this would have been part of my personal library. And as our children learn from us, we learn from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABCs of Life: Stories of Tamika is available through her website,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/booksbybennie.com\/\">booksbybennie.com<\/a>; Amazon; and the Minnesota Black Authors Expo website,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnblackauthorsexpo.com\/\">www.mnblackauthorsexpo.com<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you, Bennie, for the beautiful way of teaching children about God with practical applications to their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCs OF LIFE Stories of Tamika By Bennie Brown Our lessons and beliefs on faith and spirituality begin with what we\u2019re taught as children. I remember those lessons being taught to me during Sunday School by Ms. Pleas. 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