You sometimes hear adults with a lisp of who have trouble saying ‘r,’ but speech pathologists rarely work with adults on how to produce speech sounds. In addition to working with children, speech pathologists also work with adults in any area that impinges on their ability to communicate and swallow effectively.
Is speech pathology all about the way people talk? ... or is there more to it?
Speech pathologists, as the name suggests, work with children who have trouble producing speech sounds correctly… but is a speech pathologist’s office a revolving door of lisps or is there more that they can offer their clients?
It is not uncommon for children to be lied to by their parents! These lies might be little white lies or lies we say are “for their good”... they can even be very big lies!
Coming into the Christmas season the tales, fables and stories shared with children tend to increase and we as adults can create lifetime patterns of children growing up with many untruths.
I’m a dad. How do I show affection to my pubescent daughter?
Prior to the onset of puberty, dads are often free flowing with their expression of love and affection for their ‘little girl’. Dads will rarely hold back from wrapping their daughters in their arms and showing love and affection to them. However, when puberty begins this affection can begin to withdraw and a father’s interactions with his daughter can become more ‘functional’ – becoming more about what needs ‘doing’ in life and not them just ‘being’ together.
There is a very big difference between being ‘strict’ and ‘teaching responsibility’.
Strict Parenting
Being ‘strict’ is where we tell people what ‘to do’ or what ‘not to do’ and offer ‘punishment’ when unwanted behaviours occur. This style of parenting results in a child (who later becomes an adult) making decisions on ‘fear’! That is, choices are based on not doing the wrong thing because they fear getting caught out, being reprimanded, making a mistake or even being corrected.
Prior to the onset of puberty, dads are often free flowing with their expression of love and affection for their ‘little girl’. Dads will rarely hold back from wrapping their daughters in their arms and showing love and affection to them. However, when puberty begins this affection can begin to withdraw and a father’s interactions with his daughter can become more ‘functional’ – becoming more about what needs ‘doing’ in life and not them just ‘being’ together.