I Am a Mother

“I believe one of the most horrific, detrimental things we have done to children, which they carry into adulthood as it shapes their very destiny, is our creation of 'the box' in which we regard everyone in it normal and everyone outside of it not normal. I think the traditional classroom and it’s appendages of expectations bears the greatest responsibility in establishing this paradigm of 'normal' vs. 'not normal' but we have all, everyone of us, played our part effectively.” ~ Kelly Crawford @ Generation Cedar [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2kYJBfl[/c]

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Starkizzed21 · 31-35, F

We are not fish in a pond. There's an entire world out there, and everyone's uniqueness has a purpose. We cannot fit all of our kids into a box because not all of our kids are the exact same.
People told me my son wasn't normal because he wasn't talking full sentences by age 3. His hearing was fine. He understood what people were saying. He was developmentally fine. After his early childhood education screening at a young three they suggested speech intervention. My son is not a number to be defined by a textbook. I said when he is ready to talk, he will. I kept encouraging him and praised him for using his words.
He just had a lingual frenulectomy done because he was slightly tongue tied, and he is 4 now. He attends daycare that's like a preschool setting and there are no complaints about him.
Society has such a screwed up idea of how things should be. We have forgotten how things have been. The environment, ecosystems, and ourselves. Not everything and everyone must be labeled and classified. It's ridiculous.