The Queen not having chemotherapy and just radiation and a pill for 5 years that starves any remaining cancer cells.
Late reply but that's great news Joe!
For me, after nearly 4 years my son is starting to talk and use words in context and to request things! He's babbled and displayed echolalia since he was roughly 18 months, but he's started to say "toi-yet" when he needs the toilet, "mik" when he wants milk and asking for mummy or daddy, when we're not there. This is a huge step for him and we couldn't be more proud. Not only that, but when he's making requests he's also making eye contact and looking to gauge our response (at least that how it seems) by our facial expressions as well as what we say. My wife and I have very full hearts.
That's awesome dude!
Was echolalia something that was obvious or did a doctor happen to find it? Wondering for my own son who is 18 months old. He can count to 10 and say a ton of words, but I don't know if that is a concern now. But I am also a worrywart.
Which means, of course, that you're a parent.
It's the hardest thing in the world, but have patience. Yeah, there are guidelines, but there are as many growth milestones as there are kids, you know? I know for me, I had to explicitly stop looking at every piece of data with my daughter and start to look at the bigger patterns. She didn't have speech issues (though my grandson does) but hers were physical growth. She literally did not even show UP on the growth charts until she was about nine months old or something like that. She was on the chart but off the scale until like three or four Now? Well, she's no Rebecca Lobo, but she's 5'0" and healthy and normal.
My grandson was a slow starter verbally; he's now six and is actually now on the upper end of the "scale" in terms of verbal acuity.
Currently it's still mainly Disney songs and TV theme tunes but I'm working on him. Out of the blue, nearly a year ago, he basically sang along to the whole of Let it Go (Frozen), out of nowhere. He didn't do it again for about 8 months.
Luke, I think you're probably joking around here, but in the slight chance you're not, "don't". Remember, I'm older, so the whole "my music is best" thing has sort of passed me by anyway, but with my daughter, I would play a lot of music around her, and I always thought I'd want her to be a metal head or a prog head but after a fashion, I saw her making her own choices. And while I could give a rat's ass about The Jonas Brothers, or Hanna Montana - and we can have spirited debates about the integrity of those musicians - it wasn't me that was listening to it, it was her. And while I would provide general "direction" (I pointed out to her the concept of writing your own material, actually singing your songs, etc., and when her artist covered any material, I suggested she listen to the original) I let her find her enjoyment.
Today, 22 years later, she's a vinyl afficionado, and comes to me with pride and joy with her new 180g double vinyl of Taylor Swift's "1989 (Taylor's Version)", AND her vintage copy of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours". Harry Styles AND Queen. Nuture the LOVE, the OBSESSION, but free from judgment; he's going to like what he likes and that's the important thing.
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