Pretty in Pink
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Hello Readers! Hello? Helloooooooooooo? Drat. I was afraid this might have happened. You all jumped ship, didn’t you? Well, for the two or three of you (my relatives) who still stop in to read Musings of a Disobedient Mom, thank you! I really do have a legitimate reason for my gross lapse in posts. In fact, I could even provide you all with a real, illegible doctor’s excuse if you’d like… You see, I was diagnosed with breast cancer on August 17th. Shocking, right? Yea…you could have knocked me over with a feather. Let me briefly explain (and when I say briefly, I mean…thousands of words).
Baby Signs is?a book designed to teach specialized sign language used to communicate with infants and toddlers. ?While infants and toddlers have a desire to communicate their needs and wishes, they lack the ability to do so clearly because the production of speech lags behind cognitive ability in the first months and years of life.? Proponents of baby sign language say that this gap between desire to communicate and ability often leads to frustration and tantrums.? However, since?hand-eye coordination develops sooner than acquisition of verbal skills, infants can learn simple signs for common words such as “eat”, “sleep”, “more”, “hug”, “play”, “cookie”, “teddy bear”, before they are able to produce understandable speech.
I’ll admit it! My name is Whitney and I’m a hovering mother. Yes, I’m one of those mothers most people laugh at in disgust before they have children of their own. I am the mother who gasped at every first step her child took, partially in joy and partially in complete fear my child would stumble to his early death. I am the mother who sat in the parking lot for four hours each day during the first week of preschool just “in case he needed me”. I am the mother who cried the first time my son stayed at his friend’s house all night without calling me at midnight. And, I am the mother who threatened to pull her child out of Kindergarten for homeschooling after his first two weeks because he “didn’t want to go to school”. 
