Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Grocery Shopping with Dad: Fatherhood as seen through a child's eyes
    Grocery Shopping with Dad: Fatherhood as seen through a child's eyes
    Grocery Shopping with Dad: Fatherhood as seen through a child's eyes
    Ebook44 pages5 minutes

    Grocery Shopping with Dad: Fatherhood as seen through a child's eyes

    By Fred Neff and Pamela Pike Gordinier

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Come along, reminisce and chuckle with Calvin as he transforms ordinary food shopping into a learning adventure with Dad.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 2, 2009
    ISBN9781618426611
    Grocery Shopping with Dad: Fatherhood as seen through a child's eyes
    Author

    Fred Neff

    Fred Neff has published numerous magazine articles, as well as children's books and is making his debut in non-fiction self-help with Clues to Success-Making Rhyme out of Reason. He received his bachelor's degree in Journalism from San Diego State University and was also on the start-up staff as an intern for a new publication, gaining his first byline in the premier issue of San Diego Home/Garden Magazine. Prior to SDSU, during the waning years of the Vietnam conflict, he served aboard a Destroyer, a Submarine Tender, and then a fast attack submarine, USS Gurnard (SSN-662) for the remainder of his 6 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy. Much of the material for Clues to Success-Making Rhyme out of Reason is compiled from later years of selling accident and health insurance door-to-door in South Carolina. Being involved in networking businesses as well, he regularly attended self-help seminars, meeting many of the authors who influenced his writings. Fred also started up some of his own businesses from scratch, one of which is still booming with customers as of this writing. While much of his desire to write over the years was fashioned after internalizing the positive messages from self-help books and seminars, he also began writing and publishing children's books after his son, Calvin, was born in 2005. According to Fred, when people started buying his Calvin and Dad books and then continued to purchase them, he no longer harbored the doubts that keep many writers from sharing their works with the public. Then on a dare from one of his co-workers to give back to the community, he designed and taught a night course, How to Write a Children's Book, where he helped many students realize their dreams of becoming a published author. Some of them to date have been published numerous times. As much as he enjoyed writing children's books and teaching others to do the same, his own 'Call of the Wild' had not been fulfilled with much of his life's work that had been written on napkins at all-night diners, then transposed and trapped inside computer files, just sitting there. So one night, as writers can attest to, he started writing, one sentence and one page at a time. Burning the midnight oil for several months, he gradually combined years of internalized messages into a story with Clues to Success. What is partly different here than with most self-help books is that along life's way, Fred wrote about the bumps and bruises as well, never imagining that they would become an integral part on the journey to success. When you see how often failures, heartache, and setbacks feed and water the seeds of success, you will have little doubt that you, too, can enjoy a healthy measure of success in your own life's journey.

    Read more from Fred Neff

    Related to Grocery Shopping with Dad

    Related ebooks

    Children's Action & Adventure For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Dear Santa

      Dec 2, 2020

      Dear Santa
      4 min read

    • Article

      His Greatest Legacy

      Mar 24, 2020

      Don’t all girls worship their father? Not until I was older did I realize that all dads are not the same. Mine was especially kind, loving, and supportive; I strive to be as kind and accepting. When I was growing up, my dad had a small business in ou

      5 min read

    • Article

      Deat Lsaae

      Jun 24, 2020

      Deat Lsaae
      2 min read

    • Article

      This Month

      Mar 3, 2021

      This Month
      3 min read

    • Article

      LESSONS From My DAD

      Aug 11, 2021

      LESSONS From My DAD
      6 min read

    • Article

      With Deepest Appreciation

      Oct 17, 2023

      Ah, Beauty. I’m thankful for you, the first gift of my grandma, who wore fancy netted and feathered hats. I met you each week around my aunties’ tables, where plates were heaped with colorful, nutritious foods. I grew to love you dearly at Mom’s sewi

      6 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Feb 23, 2024

      EACH week our team comes together to discuss and plan the magazine – from choosing which stories will go into the issue to sourcing images for each page and seeing everything through to the layout process. And week after week, story after story, the

      5 min read

    • Article

      Your Page

      Aug 17, 2022

      Little did I know that a Country Style front cover from September 2013 would lay the foundation for one of the last and most cherished memories I would have of my mother. After a nine-year stint in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, we moved back to country

      5 min read

    • Article

      Winning Letter

      Dec 23, 2022

      AS I look back at the year that was, I’m astounded by just how tough it’s been. We were all trying to adjust to a world after pandemic restrictions and masks, battling to find a new normal in a world that was anything but. And it’s not as if we start

      5 min read

    • Article

      Our Pottery Story

      May 12, 2023

      Our Pottery Story
      4 min read

    • Article

      Parent Opinions

      Mar 3, 2022

      Parent Opinions
      8 min read

    • Article

      Your Page

      Jun 22, 2022

      In this world of uncertainty and unrest with wars, floods, a pandemic and other personal things that impact on families and futures, I can always find peace and solace in each edition of Country Style. As I turn each page in anticipation of where it

      4 min read

    • Article

      Join The Weekly CONVERSATION

      Oct 23, 2022

      Kevin Milne, your reflections this week (NZWW, Oct 24) made me smile, ruefully. “Return to lender”, indeed. Why do we book lovers loan our beloved books to family and friends, knowing that the chances of them being returned – promptly or at all – are

      3 min read

    • Article

      Angel A mollard You Are So Much More Than Unpaid Carers

      Jan 20, 2020

      I watched them on the ferry: a grandma, grandad and a couple of young boys aged around 6 and 3. The youngest wanted to sit on one side of the boat, the eldest on the other and the grandad plonked himself down, clearly exhausted by his day as tour gui

      1 min read

    • Article

      How I Remember It

      Jun 20, 2020

      This is the way I remember it: We’re all gathered in the kitchen on Christmas Eve, too many bodies for one small space, and my grandfather is telling stories. We clear the dishes as he starts recalling the first time he made mashed potatoes as a fled

      3 min read

    • Article

      One Love

      Aug 27, 2019

      One Love
      2 min read

    • Article

      Should Kids Know The TRUTH ABOUT SANTA?

      Nov 18, 2019

      The magic of the festive season is hugely celebrated in our family. Our kids – aged seven, five, and three – all believe in Santa and we want to keep it that way for as long as possible. Of course, Christmas isn’t only about Father Christmas, but we

      2 min read

    • Article

      Through My Eyes

      Aug 20, 2021

      Through My Eyes
      10 min read

    • Article

      Doug’s DIARY

      Mar 17, 2023

      How come February is the shortest month, but somehow feels like the longest? Thankfully, it’s punctuated by Pippin’s birthday, which provides a ray of intense sunshine in what is otherwise, so often, a dark time for me. There have been some high poin

      7 min read

    • Article

      One Pot Dinners

      Mar 4, 2021

      One Pot Dinners
      6 min read

    • Article

      A question For Santa

      Nov 27, 2023

      A question For Santa
      2 min read

    • Article

      Mabu Mabu

      Jun 3, 2021

      Mabu Mabu
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Grocery Shopping with Dad

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Grocery Shopping with Dad - Fred Neff

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1