I have no resolutions. I will not be eating better or drinking less or writing more or even becoming a better this or that. I hate resolutions. I'm terrible at them.
But I have a few wishes:
...my husband stops feeling sorry for me and telling me that I was different before all of this,
...my son learns to speak better so I can try and help him through his tantrums,
...this FET somehow miraculously works and I never have to enter "Pavillion K" again in my entire life,
...I stop having realistic baby dreams because it just adds insult to injury
...I learn patience and trust
About Me
- christine
- Formation: Bachelor Degree in Humanities and World Religious – Université de Floride (1999) Associate of Arts degree – St Petersburg College de Floride (1997) Certificat TEFL (Teaching of English as a Second Language) - (2001)
4 comments:
Wishes are good, so I'm wishing that your wishes come true.
Have you tried teaching S any signs? E started talking relatively late for a girl and signs helped us.
We never continued with signing and I really regret that because now I see how useful it could have been for a late talker. Now I think maybe it's best to just push the verbal. Does signing help her with tantrums? I'd just like to ask him what's wrong and have him tell me. Maybe all toddlers are like this though vocabulary or not.
This is my second attempt to post. I don't know what it is with me a blogger and commenting lately. . .
Anyway, signs did/do nothing for tantrums in progress but were very helpful for diffusing things before they became tantrums. For instance, if I gave her a banana and she wanted an apple she could tell me by signing.
The little boy down the street is the same age as E and S. He has a severe language delay (and other problems, I suspect). The first thing his speech therapist did was try to teach him a few signs so communication could be two way.
I totally get wanting to push the verbal, though. I recently read that bilingual children talk a bit later, but use more of their brain and have superior IQs.
What are good ones to teach? Do they pick up quickly? I think I better begin something. In a few months he'll be in a trilingual environment. This is starting to get scary. I think we must be nuts!
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