Many of us older folks were Changeling children, born into families thathad no idea what to make of weird kids like us. Cuckoos hatchingin a nest of robins. We identified much more with the AddamsFamily than with the Brady Bunch. Some families handled thechallenge well, with love and patience. But far too many blew itbadly, often including serious abuse.This is a handbook for parents who find themselves with an'ugly duckling' child who just doesn’t seem to fit in. 'Old Souls'reincarnating with uncanny abilities, insights and attitudes,memories of former lives, nightmares of previous deaths... OberonZell and other members of the Grey Council wrote the 'Grimoirefor the Apprentice Wizard' specifically with the intention that itwould be gifted to us on the 11th birthday of our next incarnation.And much later, Oberon and Kirsten Johnsen created the 'Song ofGaea' as a child’s bedtime story to be read to us next time around.For all the millions of modern Pagans alive today, eventually itwill come our time to leave this life to begin a new one. As thefastest-growing religion in the Western world, we will compriseentire generations to come-on Earth and on other worlds. Whatadvice and counsel do we want to tell our future parents to guidethem in raising us? What do we wish we could have said to ourparents in this life?