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CONTACT: Elaine Krackau | PR by the Book | 512.501.4399, x 704 | elaine@prbythebook.com
(ALBANY, Ore.) “Be the change you want to see in the world” is one of the most well-known leadership quotes in history. Considering children will lead the world in another two decades, Gandhi’s words carry significant weight for parents and educators responsible for fostering the desired change. Debra Slover, founder of Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC, takes this responsibility seriously, providing educational tools for parents including the award-winning children’s book, U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden.
Written as a classic fable, U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden has been named among the best in family-friendly media as a Mom’s Choice Award winner. It is an illustrated book that empowers children, steers them toward positive patterning, and shows them how to plant and nurture the seeds of good leadership while ridding their metaphorical gardens of the "weeds" (negative qualities that can harm children's self-esteem).
The main character, a sheep named Hugh, suffers from low self-esteem, stemming from an environment where he was often criticized and never appreciated. When he stumbles into Leadership Farm, where a more open and loving way of being is the norm, he learns from human farm staffers as well as other animals how to develop his own leadership qualities and how to tend his own Leadership Garden.
The acronym U.N.I.Q.U.E. stands for Understanding, Nurturing, Inventive, Quality, Unstoppable, Expression. One letter at a time, Slover walks children through harnessing the six qualities together to form a "Leadership Garden Legacy" based on mutual respect, cooperation, teamwork, and other values.
“Time spent developing a child’s leadership is priceless in both time and money,” says Slover. “It’s an investment that pays great dividends, now and in the future.”
Slover has dedicated her life to empowering leadership greatness in both youth and adults. She spent 20 years as Director of Oregon Student Safety On the Move, a youth leadership program promoting safe and healthy communities. She lives in Oregon.
For further information, please visit www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com. To schedule an interview, please contact Elaine Krackau at elaine@prbythebook.com | 512.501.4399, x 704
