Regression

[Josiegirl]

For me, not the daycare kids!
I feel like I can't carry on a normal conversation anymore. I find myself counting out everything, even when I'm by myself and singing One Two Buckle My Shoe. Our favorite daycare songs lately(thank the stars we're over Let It Go!!!) are Row Row Row Your Boat and You Are My Sunshine so guess what I find myself singing all the time?
I'm always thinking in terms of daycare, when I go shopping, when I go to bed, when I clean, daycare daycare daycare!!!

I NEED A LIFE!!!!!

[Meyou]

Hahaha! I can still carry on a conversation but I did tell dh he needed to listen to my words in a very slow firm voice the last time we had a fight. He was not amused.

[DaveA]

I know what you mean. A couple of days ago I gave my 11 year old a sippy cup during supper. :confused:

[coolconfidentme]

Guilty...

[NightOwl]

I refer to the potty as the potty, no matter who I'm talking to. Looking for a bathroom at the mall? I ask a security guard where the nearest potty is. ::

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

Here, too.

[permanentvacation]

I have been doing daycare for about 25 years. I know my vocabulary has shrunk something awful! I can't carry on a decent conversation with an adult to save my life simply because I don't remember many 'adult big words' since I have to speak all day long to my daycare kids in more simple terms. I say that I have to 'pee-pee potty'. I all but harass the cashiers at stores because I start conversations with them and pretty much refuse to leave the store! I will still be talking while they are ringing up 2 customers after me! I do that out of starvation of adult conversation.

I believe that you definitely need to maintain an adult life after doing daycare, or you will regress. I had a stroke a while back because I took my daughter's medicine instead of going to the doctor's and getting medicine prescribed for me. Because of my high blood pressure, the medicine my daughter was taking gave me a stroke. So, to help my cognitive skills after the stroke, I started attending college.

Even though my classes are online, I now communicate with adults a couple of times a week and have to read and write college level essays. I also ponder (adult big word there!) the concepts that I am learning after class time. I discuss some of the topics with my sister over the phone, and I even brought a topic up on this forum; the dignity discussion one is from my college class. Going to college has helped me build my vocabulary, and given me adult interaction that I desperately needed! Since my classes are online, I don't actually see other adults, which I feel that I need to do. So next semester, I am planning to try to take at least one class in person.

If you can, you might want to look into taking a college class. Even if you just take a fun class like ceramics or floral arrangement, you will have a day or two each week that you spend some time with adults. After a while, you will start speaking and thinking on an adult level again.

If not college, then maybe some other way to get with adults once or twice a week. Some ideas are going to church, joining a bowling league, getting together with a friend for lunch on Saturdays, and joining a book club.