Gifts

What is the best gift you've ever been given? Did you consider returning it at first because you didn't think you'd like it? Did you like it more after you had it for a while?

Introducing

Gifts, How Children with Down syndrome Have Enriched Our Lives

Few parents expect or desire to raise a child with Down syndrome. Yet many who travel this path discover rich, unexpected rewards along the way. In this candid and poignant collection of personal stories, sixty-three mothers describe the gifts of respect, strength, delight, perspective, and love which their child with Down syndrome has brought into their lives. Their diverse experiences point to a common truth: the life of a child with Down syndrome is something to celebrate.

63 contributors make up the contents of this book of which I am one. Profits from book sales through the Gifts website will be used to fund the Gifts Outreach program, which will purchase copies of the book for donation to parents through local DS organizations nationwide and in Canada.

The book is a softcover, 6x9 book with 350 pages and 67 b/w photographs. The retail price is $18.99. It should be available on Amazon at the end of October. Every two copies sold will enable the outreach program to purchase a copy of the book for donation.
 
The website is being constructed at http://www.giftsds.segullah.org
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