MOTHERHOOD || Una visita al psicólogo infantil puede hacer la diferencia. 💡

When my oldest son was about to turn two years old one of his older cousins squeezed him so hard in the abdominal area that he was left without air which caused him to faint briefly; he was unresponsive for only a few seconds, maybe a minute or two. It was a terrifying episode for me, however, what impressed me the most that day were the words of my little son once he reacted, I remember it perfectly, he said: "This experience had never happened to me before".

Perhaps for many it may not have much relevance, however, for me as a language teacher, it was amazing that a one and a half year old child could construct such a grammatically complex sentence and express it in such a fluent way having just gone through a brief fainting spell.

After a while I began to observe more closely her way of communicating and relating to others. I became more interested in his use of complex phrases and words and the way he used them so well in every situation.

By the time my son turned three, I was absolutely certain that my son was totally different from other children his age. His interests, hobbies, his way of expressing himself, the way he used to express himself, the fancy language and the self-taught way in which he learned was something to be reckoned with.

My decision to seek professional help, however, came about when my son began to be constantly irritable and somewhat aggressive with strangers or people outside his family environment. He began to show little tolerance for younger children his age and his ability to relate or make friends was very low. He preferred to be among adults and his topics of conversation were those of an older child.

I knew and was fully aware that I was the one who needed help. I needed someone specialized to identify the type of special condition my son had, because for me it was a fact that he had a condition. It was imperative that a professional provide me with the necessary guidelines and orientations so that I could raise a child who seemed more like an adult but who was, after all, a child; it was my responsibility to educate him and channel all those behaviors.

Most of the time it is the parents who require professional help. The specialist, either a child psychologist or a pediatric neurologist is in charge of diagnosing the condition and giving guidelines, recommendations and treatments to follow. But we are the parents who deal with the child 24/7, that is why we must prepare and educate ourselves; although it is true that in the university they do not teach how to be parents and that babies do not come with a manual, it is also true that educating ourselves on basic issues of child behavior and conduct, will help us to act in a better way in certain situations. We will be able to be more understanding and act a little smarter before applying the flip-flop or leash theory as our parents did.

Just as we prepare ourselves to succeed in the professional world, we can also train and educate ourselves to provide our children with parents who strive to be better every day.

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