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Jayne Jaudon Ferrer is the mother of three
sons, so she has first-hand knowledge of rowdy males and that quiet
sweetness of boys. This is a revised edition of the collection with
additional poems and phrase changes. A Mother of Sons is divided in the
stages of a boy's life: "Exuberant Sons," "Eager Sons," "Earnest Sons,"
"Edgy Sons," and "Evolving Sons." Humor abounds in A Mother of Sons through the experiences of daily life with boys. "Attack of the Diapered Viking," describes the curious world of a crawling boy out to protect the home. The hectic hours before getting the boys off to school are recounted in "Morning Reverie." There are the tender maternal reflections in "Lesson Review," where the mother questions if she has prepared her son for the world. She honors the birth order of the son in "Kindred Spirits" to the eldest son; "Carpe Diem" to the middle child; and "Earth Angel" to the youngest son. The mother and son relationship grows richer as the boys become men. Ferrer's "I Am a Mother of Sons" reads like an anthem:
Ferrer's poems range from humorous to insightful. There is an everyman quality of the poems that make this a good inspirational gift book. Jayne Jaudon Ferrer is a wife, mother of three sons, writer, and speaker. She and her family live in Greenville, South Carolina.
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