This is the first installment in a series of bios that will be
featured here from
time to time. Hope you enjoy getting to know a few good
writers.
Wanda Thomas Littles
Margaret Wilson
Childrens Guidance Author
I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana. I graduated from
LouisianaTechUniversity
with an MS degree in Mathematics and a Minor in
Technical Writing. After
college, I served in the U.S. Army as a Medical Service
Corps officer. I met my
husband, Joe Wilson, in the Officer Basic Course. I
resigned my commission
after five years when my first daughter was born.
I have three children: Paula (age 10), Jasmine (age 9),
and Joseph (age 5). I
stayed at home with them until Joseph was three years
old. At that time, I
entered him into a preschool program where I became a
preschool teacher.
When deciding what I wanted to do career-wise, I asked
myself what I would do
for free. Teaching preschool was my immediate
response. My future goal was
to become a preschool director. So I enrolled in the local
college, and took two
business classes in requirement for that future goal. I also
obtained my Child
Development Associate Credential. The following
semester, I enrolled in the
Masters on-line program at the University of Missouri-
Columbia, majoring in
Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Early
Childhood Education.
After one year of teaching preschool, I became the
preschool director.
When Joseph was a toddler, I got the idea to write a
curriculum that taught
pre-academic skills combined with Bible lessons in a fun,
interactive format. My
vision was to use to curriculum to facilitate Mommy &
Me classes with other
moms and their young children. I took off a few months
after running a home
school preschool business for one year. My second
daughter was a part of the
home school group. I took time off to market my
Mommy & Me: Baby’s
Bible School books. After an unsuccessful marketing
attempt, I decided to put
the books on hold until I finished my Master’s degree. I
anticipated the MED
credential would give me credibility in marketing future
books.
I graduated in December 2009. In January, I started
working at Head Start as a
substitute teacher to broaden my experience base on
Early Childhood Education.
I recently completed an alternative teaching certification
course, and passed the
Generalist Early Childhood to Sixth Grade certification
test. I hope to teach at a
local Christian school next school year, Lord willing. I
would like for my three
children to attend the same school.
I have written a few books that are still in manuscript
form: a children’s
devotional Bible, a financial book, an autism handbook,
and a family-school-
community involvement handbook. I plan to put a
couple of them in finished
form within the next couple of months. I also plan to
offer my Mommy & Me
books to the international, Christian MOPS (Mothers of
Preschoolers)
organization for their members. I will offer the financial
book as a resource for
Dave Ramsey’s customers. And I will submit the FSC
involvement handbook to
the U.S. Department of Education.
My future plans include writing three curricula books for
churches across the
nation. After obtaining my doctoral degree in Religious
Education, I plan to start
a program called Life Changers. The vision is for
churches to impact the world
for Christ by providing after-school and summer
programs for school-agers, free
of charge. I will write one book for the after-school
program; one book for
special holidays; and one for summer camps. Then
churches can pick which
program they would like to participate. Each book will
provide suggestions for
modifying instruction for lower and higher grade levels,
as well as, free and
low-cost alternatives. If the vision catches, the world can
change because
adolescents will not have to stay at home alone after
school, thereby, decreasing
the rates of teenage pregnancy, drug and alcohol use,
pornography viewing,
inappropriate television, and gang affiliations. Of course,
the curriculum will
include daily Bible lessons/devotions, thus, promoting the
church’s mission of
evangelism to the lost.
To purchase your copy of Mommy and Me: Baby's
Bible School
go to amazon .com.
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