In Firing Up Imagination, Philip J. Taylor reveals his straightforward experiential and research-based ways to finding and bringing back healthy lifestyles for you and your family. He shares with you possibilities to instill soul-enriching programs to select new menus for dealing with addictions, abuse, consumerism, and the onslaughts on you and your child in corporate drives to commercialize your child's precious years enjoying a positive memorable and carefree time in life by presenting opportunities for making more conscious parental examples and influences come to bear on creative guidance for children. Who's controlling your purse strings? Philip J. Taylor proposes avenues for you to travel on in your search for integrity, savings, and ultimate financial independence to provide clear role modelling for your child's capabilities to plan and budget carefully for the necessities of life and take care of conserving a variety of their material and moral resources. While claiming no magic pills, Philip J. Taylor does work with you to find common starting points to focus attention with practical ideas and activities which go to the heart of problems associated with getting into the debt trap. Philip J. Taylor sensitively injects food for thought in putting solutions with your help into your child's hands. Using Nature, humour, reading, the media, games, song, values clarification, respect for elders and everyone, environmental health, healing AIDS/HIV, family budgeting as means to get to greater family autonomy, Philip J. Taylor appeals to your reason and emotions that help you get results that bring more freedom of choice to your lifestyle. Giving backbone to this book, Philip J. Taylor offer room to pause and consider the place of power, profits, and advertising that govern our lives. Throwing out a challenge, Philip J. Taylor urges you to find the magic in your life through conscious acts, activities, and strategies that help you harmonize family life. Here again he provides tools for workshops, a survey to examine your child's television watching habits, which also impact on the incidences of violence on television. In FIRING UP IMAGINATIONS: Practical Ideas for Parent and Child Enjoyment over Consumerism and Advertising Philip J. Taylor provokes you to RISE TO YOUR POTENTIALS INTRODUCTION- A SOUL ENRICHING PROGRAM TO IMPROVE AND ENHANCE COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR CHILD This book is dedicated to healthy living ways. If attention, prevention, and meaningful intervention can help children succeed with their parents love and support, then we can go hand-in-hand to live more today and anticipate a better tomorrow. So I share life experiences with you and would like to get you thinking and inquiring about the thousand-and-one magic spells you have up your sleeve to conjure up all your dreams. Activities, tools, methods, story clips, humour, and techniques to bring you and your child closer together are all employed to tease out your individual and collective creative streaks. Philip J. Taylor's basic message in FIRING UP IMAGINATIONS: Practical Ideas for Parent and Child Enjoyment over Consumerism and Advertising is this: "Use your idiom, myth, mirth, magic, miracles, medicine, mantras, and -Go ahead Involve your child in healthy, playful, communicative activities and moments that enrich life. Most importantly, listen, watch, and engage in their excitement, meaningful learning and utterances in connecting with where they travel on this journey of discovery. Good Luck " Should you wish to communicate any of the wonderful, eventful, and life enhancing opportunities you've had to develop love, friendship, and understanding with your child or if you the reader wish to include me in your adventures, please contact me at: Philip.Taylor@abcape.com Fax.: 514-316-1017 (c) 2013 Philip J. Tayl