Parenting in the 21st Century

322 West Washington Street,Macomb IL 61455

09 January, 2023

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Hungry for pizza, community, and an engaging evening? Hire a babysitter and join the St. Paul School and Church Communityin welcoming author, educator, story teller, and pastor, John Jamison who will speak to the joys and challenges of "Parenting in the 21st Century" on January 9, 2023 from 5:30-7:30. This event is free, but a ticket is needed to attent due to limited capacity. Tickets are expected to go fast, so RSVP soon! Attendees who RSVP by January 4 will be entered into a raffle for fun prizes. Ticket "sales" will close on January 6, 2023. Never before have children have had such access to opportunities for immediate entertaintment. Never in our lifetime have children lived through a global pandemic. Never before have children and parents been exposed to 24 hour news cycles. On top of all this, the pressure for students to perform academically has never been greater. How is one expected to navigate these 21st century challenges? John Jamison has tools and techniques to assist parents with meeting these challenges. John was born in Beardstown, Illinois, the elder of two children. “As a pastor,” John explains, “I spent most of my time helping people learn to cope with major changes in their lives. I found myself doing exactly the same thing with faculty and staff who were trying to deal with the huge changes taking place in education because of technology, games and other things. In both situations, I found that stories were a great tool." He grew-up in a family of riverboat captains, railroaders, fishermen, painters, photographers and writers, so storytelling is in his genes. Because of that, while busy with his careers, John also had several books published containing collections of stories; some faith-based and some academic. “Whatever I do, it always seems to come down to the idea of wanting to create just good stories.” John continues to follow that goal today as he focuses more on his writing, celebrating this year’s release of his first full novel: Disruption. John’s writing continues to include his faith-based and non-fiction work, which he publishes as John B. Jamison. He publishes his fiction pieces under the name J. B. Jamison, and publishes his books for young readers and listeners as Pops Jamison. John and his wife Pat live in the country near New Berlin, Illinois, just down the road from the farm home of their daughter and son-in-law and two grand children. (More information about John can be found on his webpage, https://johnbjamison.com, and on his Amazon.com page.)