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Articles by Beverly Beckham
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August 25, 2008
Back-to-School in Today's World
Even in kindergarten, your grandchildren might be practicing drills for a classroom lockdown. It's a scary world.
They will practice for a lockdown. A teacher will secure the windows, pull down the shades, lock the classroom door, pull down its shade, too, then turn off the lights and lea ... read more
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August 11, 2008
August Dreams: The Innocence of Grandchildren
A child's only obligations are to dream and have fun. In fact, children laugh 400 times a day.
The song was on a small, plastic Golden record, which all U.S. children had a million years ago when one small record could entertain you for days, maybe weeks, because we did ... read more
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July 28, 2008
My Grandchild's Got Talent
Some kids are hams. Others shy away from the spotlight. Award-winning columnist Beverly Beckham shows each of her grandchildren that all the world is a stage.
Amy sings about God in a very serious tone, matching gestures to her words: "My heart tells my eyes to look up and my feet to march on." A natural born ham, an inventor of son ... read more
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July 14, 2008
The Joy of (Re)Discovery
Can't tell a frog from a toad? Having grandchildren can reacquaint you with the wonders of the natural world.
I wake to birdsong these days, to trills and cheeps and caws, a chorus that begins in the dark. It doesn't obliterate the noise of traffic and trains and planes and sirens. Bu ... read more
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June 30, 2008
A Wisp of a Girl
Lucy is just 32 pounds and three feet two inches tall, but all guts and grace
I strap her into her car seat and tell her that we are going to the doctors'. And she smiles at me and says, "Mimi's house."
"First we’re going to the doctor, Lucy, the ... read more
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June 16, 2008
Adam, Adam, How Does Your Garden Grow?
Apparently, 4 years old is not too young to have a green thumb.
Adam has been helping me plant flowers since he could toddle out to the small deck that’s attached to our family room. He’s only 4 but the boy knows his way around ... read more
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June 02, 2008
Watching Lucy
I had forgotten the minute-to-minute vigilance that's required to keep a four-year-old safe.
What you forget when your children are up and grown, full-fledged adults who brush their teeth and buckle their seat belts without your telling them, is that they were not bor ... read more
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May 19, 2008
Happy Birthday, Charlotte!
One of a kind. That's the miracle of children.
The party was going to be small. Or so they told me. A little celebration. Family. A few friends. “Charlotte’s just 1, after all. We’ll have a cake and some ... read more
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May 05, 2008
Memories to Last a Lifetime
Our kids and their kids. Three generations. Our first extended-family vacation.
Four nights. Three days. Not long. But long enough for a vacation to remember.
We followed the children. We were children. We woke up at dawn. We leaped up. We smiled. We put ... read more
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April 21, 2008
Long Distance - No Distance
Time. Space. Miles. Months. For young children, these things do not exist.
Lucy and Adam are 4 years old now, not babies anymore, full of words these days, full of questions. “Want to play tent, Mimi? Want to go to the Dairy Barn? Want to get a ... read more
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April 07, 2008
The Gym Set
Building a playset and a bond, one small step at a time.
Day 1: There they are, outside in the freezing cold, the pair of them, Mutt and Jeff, father and son, putting together an elaborate swing set.
It came in three huge boxes and ... read more
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March 21, 2008
When Dresses Were a Sign of Love
Love - unlike mother and daughter dresses - never goes out of style.
I am 4 in the picture, my granddaughter Lucy’s age, sitting beside my mother, who is leaning against a boulder somewhere in the great outdoors. Scrub pines and scraggly ... read more
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March 06, 2008
A 4-Year-Old Ambassador Against Fear
Lucy doesn't know that she's an ambassador who is up against misinformation and trepidation.
This is what "internationally renowned" Sherman J. Silber, M.D., writes in his "completely revised and updated" book How to Get Pregnant, published by Little Brown and Co. in ... read more
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March 03, 2008
A Quite Nice Tattoo
Hearts tattooed with "Mom" are so yesterday. Hearts that show the world you're a grandparent? Could this be the future?
Rosemary and I have been friends since we were 7 years old — 54 years, half a century, which is a very long time.
We met in second grade. We know things about each oth ... read more
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February 14, 2008
A Perfect Love
When love in capital letters comes knocking at your door
Your whole life, all you hear about is romantic love. It’s the stuff of fairy tales when you’re young, and poetry when you’re older, and six-handkerchief mov ... read more
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Beverly Beckham is an award-winning columnist who writes for The Boston Globe. She has four grandchildren.
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