I went to the library yesterday to stock up on children’s books for Spring Break. While I was there I grabbed a handful of different free parenting magazines, to do a little research for my own writing projects.
This morning while flipping through one of them I saw an ad that read, “Does your child have difficulty following oral directions?” Of course, it immediately caught my eye.
“Why yes,” I thought, “they do!”
Upon further inspection of the advertisement I realized that it was for children with actual HEARING problems and not, as I had hoped, a self-help class on how to make your children listen to you. What a tease.
Robin, this caught my eye! Greer was not sick at all and I thought she just had her Daddy’s selective hearing. It was time for a well child check up. Just for giggles, I mentioned to the doctor to please check her ears as she may have something growing in them because she wasn’t responding to anything I had said. The child had had numerous time out visits as well as a few pops on the backside for “ignoring” Mommy! The baby had so much ear wax in her ears that it was LITERALLY clogging her ears like plugs and she couldn’t hear squat!!!! Talk about feeling like a horrible mother!! Live and learn. We now get our ears cleaned out monthly at the doctors office. Evidently waxy ears run in her daddy’s family. That was not on my “Will you make a good daddy” survey!!