Good news.

Although we only had my youngest daughter's hearing tested, we had similar worries about her development initially. She rarely spoke until she was five (only grunts most often). Shocking to us because our first was speaking complete sentences before she turned two (honest, I have Xmas videos where she is making short sentences about Santa Claus and the Christmas tree when she was 15 months).

The youngest just won 2 academic prizes in her fourth grade class and has a vocabulary if not superior to, certainly as large as her older sibling's.

When she was younger (3-5 years old) several of her day care providers told us they thought she was autistic. Happily, turned out to be completely unwarranted.

I hope and believe your son will do fine. Personally, I have to guard against wanting my wee ones to grow up too fast. Don't know about the more civilized folk north of the border, but far too many down here haven't the patience to let children be children.

Glad to hear things are looking up.

Post #105,430 by mmoffitt 6/9/03 5:29:35 PM Reply	Good news. Although we only had my youngest daughter's hearing tested, we had similar worries about her development initially. She rarely spoke until she was five (only grunts most often). Shocking to us because our first was speaking complete sentences before she turned two (honest, I have Xmas videos where she is making short sentences about Santa Claus and the Christmas tree when she was 15 months). The youngest just won 2 academic prizes in her fourth grade class and has a vocabulary if not superior to, certainly as large as her older sibling's. When she was younger (3-5 years old) several of her day care providers told us they thought she was autistic. Happily, turned out to be completely unwarranted. I hope and believe your son will do fine. Personally, I have to guard against wanting my wee ones to grow up too fast. Don't know about the more civilized folk north of the border, but far too many down here haven't the patience to let children be children. Glad to hear things are looking up. bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
Post #105,484 by pwhysall 6/10/03 2:52:37 AM Reply	Re: Good news. Apparently I was yammering at 10 months and haven't stopped since. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #105,487 by mmoffitt 6/10/03 6:47:24 AM Reply	Heh. And I thought all you Brits were "reserved". :0) bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
Post #105,501 by Yendor 6/10/03 9:31:14 AM Reply	Re: Good news. [...]and haven't stopped since. I can vouch for that! -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #105,502 by CRConrad 6/10/03 9:31:16 AM Reply	So any day now... ...you're bound to say something sensible! :-) [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #105,505 by drewk 6/10/03 9:41:14 AM Reply	Sign of insanity Doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different this time. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

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