Adrian Jackson
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Adrian Jackson

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Grizzlies, Tigers and Combat Boot Wearing Mamas is a look at the good, bad and funny of parenting. “It’s tricky business and we are always expected to be perfect. We get so much pressure from our own parents, experts and the media, it’s hard to know which decisions are the right ones. I figure, as long as I don’t get an invitation to appear on The Jerry Springer Show, I’ve done my job as a mother,” Jackson said. After 20 years of parenting, Jackson feels that she has something to share. The book does offer some advice, but is primarily about personal experiences and the pop culture of parenting. Topics include the myth of school lunches, middle school resumes, and the dreaded “drop-off” phenomenon. The book isn’t all fun and games. The author recounts the story of Elora McKemy, a two-year-old who was kidnapped, raped, sodomized and left in a ditch to die on a roadside near an Army base in Europe. “No one should die like that and how dare we forget the life that wasn’t fully lived because of this crime?,” Jackson said. Over the years, she has advocated for many young victims. Jackson was born and raised in New Jersey. She left the United States in 1989 to live on an overseas Army base with her mother, remaining in Germany for more than a decade. She moved to Texas in 2000, where she earned a masters degree from Texas Tech University. She wrote a weekly column for 11 years, is author of Turned Wrong at Ding Dong, a compilation of columns she wrote for the Beeville Bee-Picayune.
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