Social Media Post Power
So,I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday as I usually do when I am bored watching a kid movie
with my kids. Hotel Transylvania #100. I stopped dead in my scrolling tracks when I came across this
post. YESS! I thought, SO MUCH YES! This is how I have been feeling about my daughter and about
my students. They will get there! I think sometimes we get so caught up in trying to compete that we
forget that we don't have to. Or we get so caught up in questioning what life will look like for students
and children who experience delays that we forget that they are the people they were always meant
to be! This post seriously gave me such power. I posted it and shared with my husband. We don't
have to think of a disability as an end or a stop i.e. a period. We don't have to think of it as a negative.
We can think of it as a comma, a momentary pause WITH a continuation! The sentence continues as
does life as God intended. I think this post impacted me so much because it gave me another way to
show my husband how I feel about my daughter's delay and about my students.
with my kids. Hotel Transylvania #100. I stopped dead in my scrolling tracks when I came across this
post. YESS! I thought, SO MUCH YES! This is how I have been feeling about my daughter and about
my students. They will get there! I think sometimes we get so caught up in trying to compete that we
forget that we don't have to. Or we get so caught up in questioning what life will look like for students
and children who experience delays that we forget that they are the people they were always meant
to be! This post seriously gave me such power. I posted it and shared with my husband. We don't
have to think of a disability as an end or a stop i.e. a period. We don't have to think of it as a negative.
We can think of it as a comma, a momentary pause WITH a continuation! The sentence continues as
does life as God intended. I think this post impacted me so much because it gave me another way to
show my husband how I feel about my daughter's delay and about my students.
We just watched Hotel Transylvania too! I love this blog. I think this is so common among moms as soon as your child is born. You are constantly grilled on when your child is off of the bottle or when they are crawling. I think delay or not, you feel like you are always in some kind of competition with what is expected of your child.
ReplyDeleteWow, I love this! Not only does this speak to cognitive delays, but also life slumps. I have always felt like when I compare my life to others I get down on myself and start harshly judging my progress in some way shape or form. But, instead more recently, maybe because I have been around students in our adult studies classes that are struggling the same way I am or that life doesn't always go as planned. We need to accept that "pause" that "comma" and just breathe and let life be, we are where we are in life for a reason, embrace it and learn from it. Your daughter will thank you later for your empathy and support.
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