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Re: Parental guilt

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 10/18/00
Time: 10:14:19 AM
Remote Name: 157.182.12.51

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Dear Judy,

Bob Quesal has given you a wonderful answer!

Let me add one thing. I have found that jointly watching then discussing the SFA "Stuttering and Your Child" video and the Bondarenko "Speaking of Courage" videos offer a wonderful opportunity to bring up the problem of parental guilt. Be sure to have lots of tissues available for the tears (even yours)! There is a wonderful segment in the latter video where a neuropsychologist talks about a father who scared his son with a Halloween mask whereupon the boy started to stutter. He talks about the guilt the father felt for years but points out that if that had not triggered the stuttering, something else very likely would have. This would be a great place to start a conversation on feeling responsible for the child's stuttering.

Ken


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