I am reaching out again to this community to help me think through an issue I am experiencing.
Over the last week I have noticed that S has developed a stutter. He is two years old. Yesterday morning, when S stuttered in our presence, I brought it to H's attention. I told him I felt like this was something we should note and keep an eye on. (Isn't this what parents do? i.e., Monitor behavioral changes so they don't become a bigger problem later.) He immediately stated something along the lines of well, I have several questions about this: is this even a problem, how many two year olds do this, is this normal?
I am kicking myself because I allowed him to divert my attention (yet again) and answered his questions and did not address the underlying issue. Ugh.
The way I see it, these are pretty valid questions. How did he divert your attention away from the underlying issue?
You might be taking things kind of personally because of the way you guys interacted in the past. I wasn't there for the convo, but it seems like you mentioned something, he asked questions instead of blowing it off totally.....
You both noted it. Perhaps he is going to keep an eye on it too, but didn't verbalize it. he acknowledged it was there.
