One of my favorite things about life is that we don’t get to go back. Even in the good moments. We are always moving forward. It’s something I adapted long ago when I found myself amid life feeling impossible. Something I could count on was the sun going down and coming back up the next morning.
Here’s what I want you to do. If you’re having an especially difficult time this holiday season, I want you to bottle up that worry, sadness, and maybe even a little fear about the future, and I want you to save it. Save this feeling. I’m not telling you to live in it; I want you to put it to memory.
Why? The next time you meet a parent of a toddler experiencing difficulties communicating and you see they are worried or afraid or placing the blame on themselves… take a second and remember what it felt like when you had that feeling about an event in your life.
Join me as we dive deeper into the [sometimes] intimidating but very important aspect of speech therapy for toddlers: encouraging parent involvement!
