Pat Corbett – författare

This book focuses on parenting the three elements of the human: the body, the mind, and the spirit.

Traditional parenting skills have been abandoned or conveniently forgotten. Social pressures have detoured many self-respecting parents down a one-way street of irresponsibility. Within these pages are tried and true child-rearing principles that have sustained mankind for centuries and many generations. There is an old saying that if it ain''t broke, dont fix it. Modern social architects have attempted to do that for several generations, and the mass media has fallen in lock-step with their ideas.

Why do we have children suing parents? Why do we have school administrations punishing the victims in school mishaps and giving less punishment to the perpetrator? Why do we have school administrators and teachers afraid to punish a student for fear of a lawsuit? Why do we have television productions in both cartoon and real life formats that show children disrespecting their parents as a norm in everyday life? I want you to engage your God-given talents with regard to raising children. It is through strong family units that we can return our society to a respectable community. It is through good parenting and taking responsibility for the children we give birth to that there can be a civil society.

In the anthology ACORNS, twenty former students of a boarding school share a part of their lives in the form of stories, anecdotes, tributes, and memoirs that they had once lived as the children of the residential school they grew up in. From remembrances of the food served in the hostel to pangs of first love, tales of ghostly encounters and memorable matches, the variety of stories tickle and tempt the reader to immerse in a wonderful world of nostalgia that chronicles what were for many, the best years of their life.

Leaf through the book to discover pure emotions, surreal experiences, enthralling anecdotes, and grateful nostalgia, from people who are the ''Children of Oak Grove''.

Oak Grove School is a residential public school, owned and run by the Indian Railways. It perches upon the many hills that dot the old road trek from Dehradun to Mussoorie, in a tiny stop called Jharipani. Its campus covers 256 acres (1.04 sq. km.) of beautiful hills, with playgrounds, a valley and buildings, situated amidst local flora and fauna including groves of lush oak trees and troops of inquisitive langurs.

The school was founded by the East Indian Railway Company on 1 June 1888. The students at Oak Grove are predominantly children of Indian Railways employees, with 25% of seats reserved for other children. The school has three semi-independent wings - Oak Grove Senior Boys'' School (commenced 1888), Oak Grove Senior Girls'' School (1897), and Oak Grove Junior School (1912). The school buildings were designed by Mr. Richard Roskell Bayne, Chief Engineer, East Indian Railway Company.

With an alumni strength of over 5000, Oakgrovians are spread across every corner of the world, bound by the common thread of a childhood spent in this salubrious, green, and wonderful environment of a Himalayan boarding school.