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If You Can’t get Your Priorities Straight, you Don’t Know JACK!
The first time I saw him, he was so frail. He was only a month old and his heart was so busy pumping blood through holes between its chambers... Read More →
How to Fix Your Child With a Magic Wand
My oldest daughter hadn’t been home from Russia for a month before we noticed her pointing pencils or other objects at us while contorting her... Read More →
Adopting a Child with Down Syndrome: Winning in Vegas
Our family was so wrong. We thought that adopting a child with Down syndrome would be about what we could do for him. The error of thinking like... Read More →
Rare and Precious Moments when Intellectual Disabilities Fade
I hadn’t realized that the song had been on continuous repeat for the better part of an hour. I had been reliving a perfect moment in time; one... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 1b
Amy is a “God Works in Mysterious Ways Believer.” Things don’t need to make sense for her to believe, they just have to “feel right.” Amy... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 1a
To Sing Frogs “…for strange effects and extraordinary combinations, we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any... Read More →
Mental Illness Is Like Other Illness
Amy and I have three biological children and six adopted ones in our family. Parenting that many children should clue you in on the fact that... Read More →
A World Without Bullies
As Seen in Huffington Post I was always the second or third child from the left on the front row of class pictures in elementary school. I was... Read More →
Down Syndrome doesn’t Mean Something’s Wrong
Down syndrome doesn’t mean something’s wrong. Jack is now eighteen. We adopted him when he was just one-month old. As with a... Read More →
The Family and Me
I’m John Simmons and this is my family. On the back row we have Steve, Emily and Cory. Middle row: Holly, Amy, me, Sarah and Annie. The front row... Read More →
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