Living Dreams 1 Van, 3 Years, 2 Parents, 6 Kids, 15 Countries and Becoming a Functional Family - Softcover

Gaye Chicoine

9780973112825: Living Dreams 1 Van, 3 Years, 2 Parents, 6 Kids, 15 Countries and Becoming a Functional Family

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0973112824 ISBN 13: 9780973112825

Publisher: Chicoine Publishing, 2008

Living Dreams is a family adventure travel story of 2 parents and 6 kids as they trade in their comfortable home and business in Wakefield, Quebec, Canada to drive to the bottom of South America and back. They set off on the journey with a minimum of personal belongings, a box of schoolbooks and a portable chiropractic table in their van. While Ed, the dad, pioneers chiropractic in several of the 15 countries visited, Gaye, the mom, and their six children, ranging in age from three to twelve on their departure, use the opportunity as the ultimate in life learning education. Written from Gaye s daily journals, the family s overland travel experience through the United States, South and Central America is documented in detail. She leaves nothing out while recording laughter, tears, frustration and triumphs during her family's discovery of some history, geography, language, new cultures, themselves and so much more. When you read this story it will give you ideas of how to travel with children, succeed at alternative education and get along with family members. It may inspire you to do things you never thought possible and live out a few of your own dreams.

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About the Author:

Gaye Chicoine is a photographer by trade, partner to husband Ed and mom to six life-learning young adults. She is the author of Living Dreams 1 Van, 3 Years, 2 Parents, 6 Kids, 15 Countries and Becoming a Functional Family, co-author of Out Our Back Door Revealing Photographs and Inspirational Thoughts That Nourish the Soul and a contributing member to Life Learning Lessons from the Educational Frontier. Her passions include: traveling the world, cooking nutritious meals that taste good, attachment parenting, and being an advocate for the health, freedom and rights of children. After 19 years of being a home schooling mom she still enjoys helping her children with their life directions and family business. She also counsels young families in attachment parenting, home-based education and effective communication skills. E-mail: gaye@livingdreamsbook.com

Review:

This memorable book is an adventure that no reader will ever forget. It takes us deep into the cities and forests of South America; even deeper into the heart of a family; and deeper yet into the heart and spirit of a woman in search of herself. It is a moral and courageous story, a classic journey, that confronts everything from conventional approaches to education and child-rearing to the foundations of knowledge itself. --Charles Wilkins, Best selling author of Walk to New York.

What a wonderful month I ve had, reading your book, I am sorry that it s over. Your book is beautiful, wonderful, informative and very, very touching. Congratulations on a fabulous work of art and of the heart. How lucky your family is to have such a sensitive, intuitive mother. Keep on writing. You have a gift. --Joan Scapillato, Port Colborne, Ontario

A psychological as much as a geographical journey; written with heartfelt emotional authenticity. --Jean-Christian Auclair, Quebec City

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