How Do You Know if There is Hearing Loss

[safechner]

Computers are so helpful. 750 miles should not keep you from being able to keep in touch. Try skyping or facetime- If she can't sign, she can write and you can respond- you would be seeing each other- how cool is that

I agree with Willow here- it is our job to do everything we can to help our kiddo's grow. Sometimes parents are just scared and for many reasons. The younger years are when so much growth happens it is here that you want to catch issues and start to fix them. Their minds are like sponges during these early years and they want to take it all in. You don't wait until the child is decides-

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We do text each other and she is on my facebook, but I just dont really talk to her, that is who I am. like I said, I do love my parents but I am not crazy talk to them.

I understand that Willow is doing her job to do everything for him but she shouldn't required for him to wear it if he don't want to or his parents embarrassed or whatever reasons. Only she can help him a way to do communicate like sign language or something like that. I don't required my daughter to wear hearing aid if she don't want to. She hates it since she was a baby but we stopped. It will up to my daughter decision if she wants to wear hearing aids or not.

If you found out your child is deaf, would you force him/her to wear Cochlear Impaired to make him/her into hearing world?? I have nothing against CI but I feel sorry for those children who forced it by the parents. I have a lot of friends who has had CI and they sure hate it and they also hate their parents! That is why they don't talk each other!

My mom had thought about getting me CI when I was a child but my mom think it was completed wrong for her to make me to have one. I thank to my mother who made a right decision for letting me decide what I want. If she does that, I promise you I will hate her and I would never speak to her again. That is why it happened to a lot of my friends. My good friend have CI but she felt it is not working for her when she got it when she was an adult but that was her decision.

Please keep in mind, deaf and hearing worlds are very different. Deaf world don't understand about hearing world and hearing world don't understand about deaf world. I am in deaf/hearing worlds, so I do understand between them (my husband/younger daughter are hearing and I have a lot of friends who are also hearing). I learned a lot in hearing world when I met my husband. Hope it makes sense!

[Willow]

I cannot repeat enough, he does want to wear his hearing aid though. He loves it and has thrived with having access to it again. He gets very upset when it's taken out and he begs to have it put back in. Even at his age he obviously sees it as an asset in his life and one he wants to continue utilizing.

If HE had a problem with it then I'd think differently, but he doesn't, and never has. Again, he loves and uses his aid willingly and wantingly every single time.


I disagree with you completely that a HOH/deaf child shouldn't have access to a hearing aid if his parents are simply embarrassed by the device. It's not fair to limit a child's world simply because the parents cannot get over their own discriminations and/or embarrassments.

[safechner]

I cannot repeat enough, he does want to wear his hearing aid though. He loves it and has thrived with having access to it again. He gets very upset when it's taken out and he begs to have it put back in. Even at his age he obviously sees it as an asset in his life and one he wants to continue utilizing.

If HE had a problem with it then I'd think differently, but he doesn't, and never has. Again, he loves and uses his aid willingly and wantingly every single time.


I disagree with you completely that a HOH/deaf child shouldn't have access to a hearing aid if his parents are simply embarrassed by the device. It's not fair to limit a child's world simply because the parents cannot get over their own discriminations and/or embarrassments.

Willow, I understand you very clear, so you don't need repeat enough.

You may disagree with me, that is your opinion. My opinion is that you should have sit down to discuss with the boy's parents to tell them there is nothing wrong for him to wear hearing aid and their son is interested to wear hearing aid again . There is nothing embarrassments about. If they are still not comfortable then that is fine. You do have another way to use communicate with him because you know sign language, which is awesome! You said this boy loves sign language now because you taught him. That is communication that you are using. There is nothing wrong with that. If his parents don't learn sign language, shame on them. Trust me, there are so many parents wouldn't learn sign language to communicate with their profoundly deaf child/ren. The boy either will be happy to use communicate with you with sign language or speak. As far as this boy is only two years old, it is hardly for him to have emotion about communicate just yet. I remember when I was two years old, it doesn't bother me at all. I read their lips a lot of time. After that, my mom found out that I was deaf and she sent me to a deaf education preschool and I picked up sign language quickly. My mother tried so hard to learn sign language but that is the best she could. I still read their lips until I was 4 years old. My mom got me both hearing aids and I dont ever care about that so I chewed my hearing aids. After that, I still read their lips until I was 9 years old and I got hearing aids again after I asked my mom for it. I went to speech therapy and I picked up quickly too. My mother was shocked that I learned really fast. That is what I wanted when I was very interested to learn. Now all I am saying just give the parents some time for them get it. However, they already got it, anyways.


I understand you are trying to help him but he does have communicate with you. That is sign!

You are right it is not fair to limit a child's world but there are so many not fair to deaf children due to their parents don't know sign language or forced them to speak without using sign language.

That boy will always be deaf. He will around deaf children in later in his life that he would involved in deaf community. His parents will learn by it or not, who knows.

Like I said, hearing people don't understand about deaf culture.

Well, this is my last post so I hope you understand what I mean. You probably still disagree with me, but that is ok.

[Willow]

I agree with Willow here- it is our job to do everything we can to help our kiddo's grow. Sometimes parents are just scared and for many reasons. The younger years are when so much growth happens it is here that you want to catch issues and start to fix them. Their minds are like sponges during these early years and they want to take it all in. You don't wait until the child is decides-

Exactly.

His parents started out scared and embarrassed only because it was something new to them. They no longer are either scared or embarrassed and have since made phenomenal strides towards advocating for him and his disability rather than trying to brush it under the rug. His mother especially.

I remember my kids bringing things to the table that challenged what I knew about parenting. That made (and still sometimes make) me say WOAH! Wait..what??! How am I supposed to handle this???

They just needed encouragement is all. We all do sometimes.

[B Lou]

I have a DCG who from the time she started talking she talked very very loud. And didn't seem to pay much attention when I talked to her or any of the children. I mentioned it to the parents when she was around 3-4 years old. They took her in and had her hearing checked. She now wears a hearing aid and she listens better and really pays attention when anyone speaks.
She is now 7 years old and her parents have her convinced that her hearing aid is the coolest piece of jewlrey that any girl could ever want. Way to go mom and dad. happyfacehappyface

[Willow]

I have a DCG who from the time she started talking she talked very very loud. And didn't seem to pay much attention when I talked to her or any of the children. I mentioned it to the parents when she was around 3-4 years old. They took her in and had her hearing checked. She now wears a hearing aid and she listens better and really pays attention when anyone speaks.
She is now 7 years old and her parents have her convinced that her hearing aid is the coolest piece of jewlrey that any girl could ever want. Way to go mom and dad. happyfacehappyface

That's awesome!!!

My kiddos mom and dad were concerned he'd pull his aid out outside and were hesitant to let him wear it out of fear he'd lose it (can't blame them, they're expensive!). Instead of giving into that fear mom did some searching online and came up with some cool looking neon stickers she added little scrapbooking truck stickers to that adhere right onto to it so even if he did pull it out (he never once has) it would still be easy to find in the grass. He loves picking new stickers for it now and gets so excited to show me when he switches them

[My3cents]

We do text each other and she is on my facebook, but I just dont really talk to her, that is who I am. like I said, I do love my parents but I am not crazy talk to them.

I understand that Willow is doing her job to do everything for him but she shouldn't required for him to wear it if he don't want to or his parents embarrassed or whatever reasons. Only she can help him a way to do communicate like sign language or something like that. I don't required my daughter to wear hearing aid if she don't want to. She hates it since she was a baby but we stopped. It will up to my daughter decision if she wants to wear hearing aids or not.

If you found out your child is deaf, would you force him/her to wear Cochlear Impaired to make him/her into hearing world?? I have nothing against CI but I feel sorry for those children who forced it by the parents. I have a lot of friends who has had CI and they sure hate it and they also hate their parents! That is why they don't talk each other!

My mom had thought about getting me CI when I was a child but my mom think it was completed wrong for her to make me to have one. I thank to my mother who made a right decision for letting me decide what I want. If she does that, I promise you I will hate her and I would never speak to her again. That is why it happened to a lot of my friends. My good friend have CI but she felt it is not working for her when she got it when she was an adult but that was her decision.

Please keep in mind, deaf and hearing worlds are very different. Deaf world don't understand about hearing world and hearing world don't understand about deaf world. I am in deaf/hearing worlds, so I do understand between them (my husband/younger daughter are hearing and I have a lot of friends who are also hearing). I learned a lot in hearing world when I met my husband. Hope it makes sense!

your making sense to me, but I don't agree with you. I think it is the parents job to do what is best for their child. I am talking of the young age when most choices should be up to the parents. If at a young age I could have my child hear or hear better with CI and had the means to provide this for the child. I would.

To hate your parents for wanting for you a better life is not right in itself. As an adult, you make the choices but when your a child the parents should make the choices. Choices that should be in the hands of a child, are things like....what color shirt do you want to wear today? Do you want strawberry, vanilla or chocolate? Even some of these choices should be made by the parent depending upon the conditions surrounding it. The child that has an allergy to chocolate- that choice is not going to be available to them. Going to church or an important event- holey dirty jeans are not going to be your choice. I agree when possible and when applicable give a child a choice, but when it is important and a decision needing the mind of an adult- let the adult be the adult and the child be the child. I feel children need to respect adults more and are left to their own devices at too young of an age these days- but that is my personal point of view. There is a balance there and I feel it should lean towards the parents that have the best interest of the child at heart.

Yes Willow should require him to wear it if it is going to help her to communicate better with him and vise versa.

I think you didn't get CI because you were scared. I would be too. Now you don't know how that would have changed your life, because you didn't give it a chance. I am not hearing impaired but my ears fill up with fluid from seasonal allergies and it can drive me nuts. I would do anything to hear clearer when this happens. I feel it is being scared of the unknown and you are right to feel that way.

It is ok that we do not agree on this. You are in it. I am on the outside looking in and can see things clearer because I am not caught up in it. Thank you for sharing your views-

[My3cents]

[QUOTE=safechner;234790]We do text each other and she is on my facebook, but I just dont really talk to her, that is who I am. like I said, I do love my parents but I am not crazy talk to them.

I wanted to comment on this. I left it out in the last post.

Talk to your parents- Someday they won't be around. Enjoy them while you have that time together. If you love them, take the time for them and show them that- you don't have to give up who you are to have a wonderful relationship with your parents. Your lucky to have your parents.lovethis

[B Lou]

That's awesome!!!

My kiddos mom and dad were concerned he'd pull his aid out outside and were hesitant to let him wear it out of fear he'd lose it (can't blame them, they're expensive!). Instead of giving into that fear mom did some searching online and came up with some cool looking neon stickers she added little scrapbooking truck stickers to that adhere right onto to it so even if he did pull it out (he never once has) it would still be easy to find in the grass. He loves picking new stickers for it now and gets so excited to show me when he switches them

Yes her's is purple swirl and you can add a plastic butterfly or plastic flower to the plastic piece that goes over the ear. She is very proud of it and even the other girls want one to.

[safechner]

your making sense to me, but I don't agree with you. I think it is the parents job to do what is best for their child. I am talking of the young age when most choices should be up to the parents. If at a young age I could have my child hear or hear better with CI and had the means to provide this for the child. I would.

To hate your parents for wanting for you a better life is not right in itself. As an adult, you make the choices but when your a child the parents should make the choices. Choices that should be in the hands of a child, are things like....what color shirt do you want to wear today? Do you want strawberry, vanilla or chocolate? Even some of these choices should be made by the parent depending upon the conditions surrounding it. The child that has an allergy to chocolate- that choice is not going to be available to them. Going to church or an important event- holey dirty jeans are not going to be your choice. I agree when possible and when applicable give a child a choice, but when it is important and a decision needing the mind of an adult- let the adult be the adult and the child be the child. I feel children need to respect adults more and are left to their own devices at too young of an age these days- but that is my personal point of view. There is a balance there and I feel it should lean towards the parents that have the best interest of the child at heart.

Yes Willow should require him to wear it if it is going to help her to communicate better with him and vise versa.

I think you didn't get CI because you were scared. I would be too. Now you don't know how that would have changed your life, because you didn't give it a chance. I am not hearing impaired but my ears fill up with fluid from seasonal allergies and it can drive me nuts. I would do anything to hear clearer when this happens. I feel it is being scared of the unknown and you are right to feel that way.

It is ok that we do not agree on this. You are in it. I am on the outside looking in and can see things clearer because I am not caught up in it. Thank you for sharing your views-

I understand the parents want best for thier child/ren. However, most of parents just don't want their child label as deaf so that is the reason why they want them be hearing world like them. If a child don't like to wear hearing aids or ci but the parents still forced them, anyways. I have a daughter who is profoundly deaf that means she is 100% hearing loss at birth due to stronger genetic in my bio father's family, which I don't know about. I don't see my bio father since I was 4 years old but he is hearing. That is what my high risk genetic doctor told me when I took test. Mine is 75% in my left ear and 65% in my right ear. That is why I can hear a little when my many cousins talked too loud at my grandparents' house everyday and learn how to speak on my own without hearing aid. Right now, I am wearing one hearing aid in my left ear which I am perfect fine with it. Only I can tell you, I cannot stand to wear both hearing aids and it makes me nuts! Again, I was born deaf. You were born hearing so I understand why it makes you nuts if there is filling up in your ear that you can't hear. We are different, if you know what I mean. My husband and I paid $1,700 for two hearing aids for our daughter when she was 5 months old along with huggie to hold her ears. We put into her for the first time. I don't think she get it but we tried to give her some time. However, she keeps pull them out everyday. I would say 1,000 times per two days. I noticed she really hate it and I stopped let her to use it. My husband and I are not going force her. I just want her to be happy who she is, that is her choice. If she wants to wear hearing aid again, and I will be happy to take her to the doctor to get update hearing aids.

I have a friend's friend's friend's mother tried to force her 10 years old to get CI and she screamed "NO" to her everyday. Do you think the parents still have best choice for her child?

Do I scared about getting CI? Umm... not really... The reason is that, I am not going to take risk to get CI due to deaths, headaches, cant play sports, mold, etc... I do not want them to open my brain to put machine in my brain, not in inner ears and left scar. CI is not everyone but the doctor want money, that is all. Our audiological very hard tried to get our daughter to have CI because she knew she can easy to pull my husband who is hearing. However, I stand up screamed at her and she was shocked! My husband sat back to do nothing since he lets me yelled at her and he supported me 100%. We already told her no a few times and she keeps doing it.


When I met my husband and he wasn't get it about deaf cultures. He was just like you or any hearing people who believes for deaf children to have opportunity to hear. He studies about deaf cultures and he finally got it. That is why he supported me and he is not going to force his daughter to make her hear. We love her no matter what. I wouldn't image to force my other hearing daughter to be deaf. However, both of my daughters possibly will have children who may be deaf in their future.

Let me tell you, I am very, very, very happy with my life! I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters and have my own business of daycare. My daycare parents absolutely love me that I taught all hearing kids sign language in 11 years. Hearing children who know sign language are very amazed because they will be able involved deaf community later in their life. A friend of mine told me it was amazed to see my daycare children open their eyes around deaf people that they accepted them no matter who they are. I am very impressed on his comment and it makes me feel so good to know.


About my parents, well, my husband and I made a new path for our family in the future. My husband have parents, but he is not interested to talk to them too due to their react about our daughter's hearing loss and tried to get her to get CI when she was child. My parents just accept her just like them accept me who I am. Yes, I have thought about the parents might not around in the future but I still don't really want to talk to them. Sometimes, my mom tried to tell me that she loves me on facebook and text but she never said that to me when I was kid. All I said ok. That is what I am using to it when I grew up. I do not want my kids do the same things when I grew up. We always be there for our kids and show our love to them. That is why we made a new path in our family.

You and me are different views but I do not want to make deaf community go away. Just be happy who you are, that is all matter.

Sorry it is long story but I think it may worth to write on.

[Blackcat31]

I understand the parents want best for thier child/ren. However, most of parents just don't want their child label as deaf so that is the reason why they want them be hearing world like them. If a child don't like to wear hearing aids or ci but the parents still forced them, anyways. I have a daughter who is profoundly deaf that means she is 100% hearing loss at birth due to stronger genetic in my bio father's family, which I don't know about. I don't see my bio father since I was 4 years old but he is hearing. That is what my high risk genetic doctor told me when I took test. Mine is 75% in my left ear and 65% in my right ear. That is why I can hear a little when my many cousins talked too loud at my grandparents' house everyday and learn how to speak on my own without hearing aid. Right now, I am wearing one hearing aid in my left ear which I am perfect fine with it. Only I can tell you, I cannot stand to wear both hearing aids and it makes me nuts! Again, I was born deaf. You were born hearing so I understand why it makes you nuts if there is filling up in your ear that you can't hear. We are different, if you know what I mean. My husband and I paid $1,700 for two hearing aids for our daughter when she was 5 months old along with huggie to hold her ears. We put into her for the first time. I don't think she get it but we tried to give her some time. However, she keeps pull them out everyday. I would say 1,000 times per two days. I noticed she really hate it and I stopped let her to use it. My husband and I are not going force her. I just want her to be happy who she is, that is her choice. If she wants to wear hearing aid again, and I will be happy to take her to the doctor to get update hearing aids.

I have a friend's friend's friend's mother tried to force her 10 years old to get CI and she screamed "NO" to her everyday. Do you think the parents still have best choice for her child?

Do I scared about getting CI? Umm... not really... The reason is that, I am not going to take risk to get CI due to deaths, headaches, cant play sports, mold, etc... I do not want them to open my brain to put machine in my brain, not in inner ears and left scar. CI is not everyone but the doctor want money, that is all. Our audiological very hard tried to get our daughter to have CI because she knew she can easy to pull my husband who is hearing. However, I stand up screamed at her and she was shocked! My husband sat back to do nothing since he lets me yelled at her and he supported me 100%. We already told her no a few times and she keeps doing it.


When I met my husband and he wasn't get it about deaf cultures. He was just like you or any hearing people who believes for deaf children to have opportunity to hear. He studies about deaf cultures and he finally got it. That is why he supported me and he is not going to force his daughter to make her hear. We love her no matter what. I wouldn't image to force my other hearing daughter to be deaf. However, both of my daughters possibly will have children who may be deaf in their future.

Let me tell you, I am very, very, very happy with my life! I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters and have my own business of daycare. My daycare parents absolutely love me that I taught all hearing kids sign language in 11 years. Hearing children who know sign language are very amazed because they will be able involved deaf community later in their life. A friend of mine told me it was amazed to see my daycare children open their eyes around deaf people that they accepted them no matter who they are. I am very impressed on his comment and it makes me feel so good to know.


About my parents, well, my husband and I made a new path for our family in the future. My husband have parents, but he is not interested to talk to them too due to their react about our daughter's hearing loss and tried to get her to get CI when she was child. My parents just accept her just like them accept me who I am. Yes, I have thought about the parents might not around in the future but I still don't really want to talk to them. Sometimes, my mom tried to tell me that she loves me on facebook and text but she never said that to me when I was kid. All I said ok. That is what I am using to it when I grew up. I do not want my kids do the same things when I grew up. We always be there for our kids and show our love to them. That is why we made a new path in our family.

You and me are different views but I do not want to make deaf community go away. Just be happy who you are, that is all matter.

Sorry it is long story but I think it may worth to write on.

I don't really have any advice or anything I can add to this post or thread in general as I have zero experience with deafness or HOH but I just wanted to say I admire you.

I think you stand strong in your convictions and unless someone is actually in your shoes, they can't FULLY understand. So basically... you rock!

Being able to hear does NOT guarantee a happy or "normal" life. Perhaps the parents in this thread felt NOT wearing a hearing aide or learning sign language WAS/IS in the best interest of the child and honestly, who are we to tell them what is best for their child.

Not being able to hear or providing a child with the means to hear is NOT neglect or abuse so.....

[safechner]

I don't really have any advice or anything I can add to this post or thread in general as I have zero experience with deafness or HOH but I just wanted to say I admire you.

I think you stand strong in your convictions and unless someone is actually in your shoes, they can't FULLY understand. So basically... you rock!

Being able to hear does NOT guarantee a happy or "normal" life. Perhaps the parents in this thread felt NOT wearing a hearing aide or learning sign language WAS/IS in the best interest of the child and honestly, who are we to tell them what is best for their child.

Not being able to hear or providing a child with the means to hear is NOT neglect or abuse so.....

Thank you, Blackcat!

[Willow]

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Not being able to hear or providing a child with the means to hear is NOT neglect or abuse so.....

IMHO it is if the child *wants* to hear via the use of an aid or CI and the parents refuse to give them that opportunity.



No one here said anything about condoning forcing a child who is deaf or HOH to use an aid or get a CI. The only thing that was discussed here is giving a child who is deaf or HOH the opportunity to explore those options and if the child is interested giving them the opportunity to continue to be supported using those means of assisting their ways of communicating with the world. Key words - if the child is interested.

I understand there are many in the deaf community who believe everyone born deaf should embrace that part of them and never want to be anything else. I however believe people should be allowed to feel how they want to about their disabilities. If someone born deaf or HOH wants to utilize any means necessary to accomplish hearing on at least some level they should have the opportunity to and not be chastised for those feelings by others who choose differently for themselves. In talking with that teacher friend of mine she said the judgement among the deaf and HOH community itself over whether it's flat out wrong to try to correct a hearing impairment is astonishingly harsh.

Getting a hearing aid or CI is almost seen as some sort of insult to those who don't.

The sociology behind the dynamic is both fascinating and sad

[momofsix]

I understand the parents want best for thier child/ren. However, most of parents just don't want their child label as deaf so that is the reason why they want them be hearing world like them. If a child don't like to wear hearing aids or ci but the parents still forced them, anyways. I have a daughter who is profoundly deaf that means she is 100% hearing loss at birth due to stronger genetic in my bio father's family, which I don't know about. I don't see my bio father since I was 4 years old but he is hearing. That is what my high risk genetic doctor told me when I took test. Mine is 75% in my left ear and 65% in my right ear. That is why I can hear a little when my many cousins talked too loud at my grandparents' house everyday and learn how to speak on my own without hearing aid. Right now, I am wearing one hearing aid in my left ear which I am perfect fine with it. Only I can tell you, I cannot stand to wear both hearing aids and it makes me nuts! Again, I was born deaf. You were born hearing so I understand why it makes you nuts if there is filling up in your ear that you can't hear. We are different, if you know what I mean. My husband and I paid $1,700 for two hearing aids for our daughter when she was 5 months old along with huggie to hold her ears. We put into her for the first time. I don't think she get it but we tried to give her some time. However, she keeps pull them out everyday. I would say 1,000 times per two days. I noticed she really hate it and I stopped let her to use it. My husband and I are not going force her. I just want her to be happy who she is, that is her choice. If she wants to wear hearing aid again, and I will be happy to take her to the doctor to get update hearing aids.

I have a friend's friend's friend's mother tried to force her 10 years old to get CI and she screamed "NO" to her everyday. Do you think the parents still have best choice for her child?

Do I scared about getting CI? Umm... not really... The reason is that, I am not going to take risk to get CI due to deaths, headaches, cant play sports, mold, etc... I do not want them to open my brain to put machine in my brain, not in inner ears and left scar. CI is not everyone but the doctor want money, that is all. Our audiological very hard tried to get our daughter to have CI because she knew she can easy to pull my husband who is hearing. However, I stand up screamed at her and she was shocked! My husband sat back to do nothing since he lets me yelled at her and he supported me 100%. We already told her no a few times and she keeps doing it.


When I met my husband and he wasn't get it about deaf cultures. He was just like you or any hearing people who believes for deaf children to have opportunity to hear. He studies about deaf cultures and he finally got it. That is why he supported me and he is not going to force his daughter to make her hear. We love her no matter what. I wouldn't image to force my other hearing daughter to be deaf. However, both of my daughters possibly will have children who may be deaf in their future.

Let me tell you, I am very, very, very happy with my life! I have a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters and have my own business of daycare. My daycare parents absolutely love me that I taught all hearing kids sign language in 11 years. Hearing children who know sign language are very amazed because they will be able involved deaf community later in their life. A friend of mine told me it was amazed to see my daycare children open their eyes around deaf people that they accepted them no matter who they are. I am very impressed on his comment and it makes me feel so good to know.


About my parents, well, my husband and I made a new path for our family in the future. My husband have parents, but he is not interested to talk to them too due to their react about our daughter's hearing loss and tried to get her to get CI when she was child. My parents just accept her just like them accept me who I am. Yes, I have thought about the parents might not around in the future but I still don't really want to talk to them. Sometimes, my mom tried to tell me that she loves me on facebook and text but she never said that to me when I was kid. All I said ok. That is what I am using to it when I grew up. I do not want my kids do the same things when I grew up. We always be there for our kids and show our love to them. That is why we made a new path in our family.

You and me are different views but I do not want to make deaf community go away. Just be happy who you are, that is all matter.

Sorry it is long story but I think it may worth to write on.

This brought tears to my eyes! Thank you for standing up for and stating your position so beautifully! Your own kids and daycare kids are blessed to have you in their lives!