Family night

[elizium]

It was my dad's birthday today. We're doing a proper dinner sometime after the weekend, but tonight we got together (we being me, my parents, sister and nephew) for cake. For the record, my dad is 64, which is really old since it seems that all my friends' parents are in their early fifties. My dad actually remembers WWII (well, vaguely. He was

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[odessa_who_rox]

I was talking to my dad about it the other day (who is almost 20 years junior to your dad), and he was going on about how he is disgusted how so many kids these days seem to be being sent to speech pathologists for small things that were regarded as normal even just ten years ago.

[elizium]

It's actually pretty necessary with Tristan, as he is way behind other kids his age. It's not just the s's, he has a tendency to drop parts of words, like instead of saying purple, he'll say purp or it will come out as a stream of gibberish. Granted, not every kid learns at the same pace, but his is pretty bad.

There's a couple kids in the neighbourhood that are the same age as him and they can't understand him at all. With him starting preschool in a couple weeks, we don't want him to feel isolated if the other kids don't know what he is saying. The last time I was over it took me ten minutes to figure out that he wanted me to put on music, because me and my mom both thought that he was saying new it, new it. That said, he has improved leaps and bounds in the last 3 or 4 months, the therapist is just to try and get him to drop some bad habits so he can catch up to the other kids. It'll be good, because he gets exceptionally mad if he's trying to tell us something, but we don't understand him.

[odessa_who_rox]

Awww, well that is good that he is getting help then!