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iHave an iPad, but at what Cost?
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amyjuliabecker
I have a new post at Her.meneutics, the women’s blog of Christianity Today. It begins: We don’t watch much television in our household, but my husband and I both find ourselves wed to the computer. I was looking through a photo album with our daughter last week, and we came across one from her infancy.…
By the way, we are NOT the Perfect Family
By
amyjuliabecker
I’ve been writing fairly regularly about our family. Telling cute and inspirational anecdotes about Penny, and then there was the sweet story about Penny as William’s older sister and their beautiful relationship. Not to mention that photo of the two of them doing Ring Around the Rosie in the grass with the bucolic prep school…
Is it okay to say Idiot?
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amyjuliabecker
I’ve always loved language. I spoke early, and according to my mother, I wouldn’t speak as a child until I could say a word correctly (except for raisins, which I called “sha sha.” Go figure.). I stopped taking Science classes midway through high school so I could double up on English classes. I was an…
What’s it like to have a sister with Down syndrome?
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amyjuliabecker
When I was pregnant with William, I thought a lot about what it would be like for him to have an older sister with Down syndrome. I thought about how “good it would have been” for me to have had a sibling with Downs. I assumed she would teach him things like patience, or to…
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