Recently, I browsed through the fall editions of "Hands and Voices" and found an article that just made me cry. I usually find interesting things int he newsletter. If is full of workshops, research, parent letters, happenings and products. It is put out by a great organization available to parents of children with hearing loss. It is call Hands and Voices. It is a parent driven, non profit organization which gives unbiased support to families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. They put out an outstanding newsletter and their website is: www.handsandvoices.org.
The support, wisdom and hilarity of parents, for parents is just wonderful. This month, there is a sweet article called, 'Jumping Naked: Texas Toddler Goes Natural'. I saved it to my file because it so eloquently states the challenges and humor in raising a wonderful baby who has a hearing loss. The mother talks about the difficult decisions parents need to make and about her struggle. She says and I quote, "So my husband and I did what was natural for us as a family - we talked, we signed and we tried to ignore all external voices loudly telling us how badly we were screwing our son up, how confused he would be."
This lovely young parent did it all. She tried everything and did what was right and comfortable for her and the end result was that at the age of eighteen months her son brought her to tears. It seems he had just had a bath and she had put him in his crib, dry but naked while she quickly turned down her dinner as the timer buzzed. When she came back, she laughed and said, "What are you doing?" Her beautiful son smiled and spoke. He said, "Jumping naked."
I cry right along with her.
Wise advice - Follow your heart, your gut and laugh........... or cry.
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