Parents often feel frustrated and even exasperated when their child with hearing loss behaves in an immature or inappropriate way. Most children easily figure out how to press their parents’ buttons and can just set us off sometimes. Parents have called me at such a point of stress that they are frantic, even hysterical about [...]
I made a mistake*. In a previous post, I discussed siblings in the way that everyone always does: how to minimize feelings of jealousy and rivalry between brothers and sisters. But I was wrong in only focusing on that negative aspect of sibling relationships. Perhaps I am influenced by TV and other media where fighting [...]
Marie was 9 years old when she turned to her dad during the car ride home from a birthday party and asked “Do I have to keep going to speech?” Marie’s dad was totally floored – he was not expecting this question. Speech therapy was as much a part of the family’s routine as grocery [...]
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