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From: Elissa
Date: 05 Oct 2010
Time: 11:31:38 -0500
Remote Name: 67.160.176.106
Dear Scott and Jaime, Thank you for your compassionate responses to my post, which I regretted as soon as I posted it, but could not figure out how to take down. Stuttering has surfaced in every generation of my mother's family as far back as we can trace. My brother's struggle with stuttering is still with him at the age of 39, and my daughter Charlotte began to stutter at age 2. We saw a therapist for it immediately and she went into a long remission but the stuttering is back now with a vengeance and we are planning to return to the therapist very soon. I recently wrote an essay on the topic of Charlotte's onset of stuttering and my emotional and practical response to it, which was published in a parenting magazine called Brain, Child. If you have any interest in reading it, the link is here: http://www.brainchildmag.com/essays/summer2010_wald.asp I describe my daughter in the essay as joyful, boisterous, intrepid, physically agile: thankfully, all these adjectives still apply, although she temporarily became quite withdrawn when she began to stutter. As for my relationship with my parents: I have inexpressible love and respect for them. They are wonderful people, they were wonderful parents, and today they are generous, attentive, wonderful grandparents.