Guest guest Posted February 4, 2004 Report Share Posted February 4, 2004 >A wilful 13 year old son who >turns off his hearing aid after he's had the last word and >closes his eyes! Arrggh! Ha! That's enough to urge another " original member " out of hiding, although a rather low-profile one! , Matt--he's 14 now-- pulls that turning off the aid stunt too! What happened to our sweet compliant little boys we used to discuss all those years ago? He's turning me into a cranky old woman! In fact, I am getting old aren't I? I just received my first AARP mailing--yikes! And I'm more sentimental too--you all are the ones who saw me through those early and difficult days with Matt's loss--and although we've only met in e-mail, I feel like I know you better than my next door neighbors. Wish we were all near enough to go out for a lovely dinner together... Hugs, LuAnn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2004 Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 In a message dated 2/5/2004 1:19:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, lphillips99@... writes: > >A wilful 13 year old son who > >turns off his hearing aid after he's had the last word and > >closes his eyes! Arrggh! > > Ha! That's enough to urge another " original member " out of hiding, although > a rather low-profile one! , Matt--he's 14 now-- pulls that turning off > the aid stunt too! This thread made me laugh and I have to share our recent " turning off " story. Ian (13) turns off his aides when his sister is annoying him, when he has decided he's had enough of me, when the radio is playing the wrong music ... sound familiar, huh? The latest story: We are in the Bass outlet getting boots for my daughter. She's grown about 6 inches in 6 months and nothing is fitting. She loves one pair but they fit too tightly and she'll be out of them in a week ... you get the idea of the debate that's raging. Ian is bored ... beyond bored. He has looked at every shelf, every shirt ... he is pacing. At one point I see my husband leave the store (he quite tall) so I assume that Ian has left with him. We resolve the boot issue, is happily wearing the new ones as I pay for our colleection. My husband returns at this point ... but without Ian. We pace the store calling his name .. no answer. My husband now heads to the other end of the mini-mall calling for him. 20 minutes later we still have no Ian. The store manager asks if we want him to call the police and I'm considering it when I hear singing, quiet and off-key singing. Ian had decided to go to the back of the store and take a nap on the couch just outside the fitting rooms. Aides off and asleep, he hadn't heard us calling. None of the sales staff took notice of him because he was tucked back in a corner. He'd just woken up (he was uncomfortable) and decided to sing to himself to pass the time. He didn't hear us calling, and didn't hear me coming ...I was not sure if I was going to kiss him or throttle him. He jumped up, popped in his " ears " and sarcastically said -- so we're finally ready to go? (snarl) I waited until we were in the car to yell ... (sigh) Just another day in paradise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2004 Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 In a message dated 2/5/2004 1:19:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, lphillips99@... writes: > >A wilful 13 year old son who > >turns off his hearing aid after he's had the last word and > >closes his eyes! Arrggh! > > Ha! That's enough to urge another " original member " out of hiding, although > a rather low-profile one! , Matt--he's 14 now-- pulls that turning off > the aid stunt too! This thread made me laugh and I have to share our recent " turning off " story. Ian (13) turns off his aides when his sister is annoying him, when he has decided he's had enough of me, when the radio is playing the wrong music ... sound familiar, huh? The latest story: We are in the Bass outlet getting boots for my daughter. She's grown about 6 inches in 6 months and nothing is fitting. She loves one pair but they fit too tightly and she'll be out of them in a week ... you get the idea of the debate that's raging. Ian is bored ... beyond bored. He has looked at every shelf, every shirt ... he is pacing. At one point I see my husband leave the store (he quite tall) so I assume that Ian has left with him. We resolve the boot issue, is happily wearing the new ones as I pay for our colleection. My husband returns at this point ... but without Ian. We pace the store calling his name .. no answer. My husband now heads to the other end of the mini-mall calling for him. 20 minutes later we still have no Ian. The store manager asks if we want him to call the police and I'm considering it when I hear singing, quiet and off-key singing. Ian had decided to go to the back of the store and take a nap on the couch just outside the fitting rooms. Aides off and asleep, he hadn't heard us calling. None of the sales staff took notice of him because he was tucked back in a corner. He'd just woken up (he was uncomfortable) and decided to sing to himself to pass the time. He didn't hear us calling, and didn't hear me coming ...I was not sure if I was going to kiss him or throttle him. He jumped up, popped in his " ears " and sarcastically said -- so we're finally ready to go? (snarl) I waited until we were in the car to yell ... (sigh) Just another day in paradise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2004 Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 Jake started that at an early age. When he was about 3 and was in trouble he would reach up and flip both switches on his aids to off. I would keep cueing and say you can still see me.....so he wouls close his little eyes really tight and cover them and say " NO look " so defiantly. Now that he has the CI and is old enough that I had the alarm turned off (so it doesn't beep when the coil is off) he will ease his hand to his chest and gently tug the cord and slip the coil off when he is in trouble. It is kinda funny when he says I still can't " hear " you when I am cueing and he closes his eyes. But I would never let him know that...hahaha Elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2004 Report Share Posted February 5, 2004 > My son actually started refusing to look when he was four. I used to sign > to him and whenever I did, he would close his eyes and say, " Use mouth, no > hands " >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yeah mine would say, " No hands, use words, " when we would cue to him as a little one. Amazing how they make up their minds...LOL Now, at age 10 and with his CI off the other morning he told his brother to, " talk like this " and wiggled his fingers at his chin telling him he needed to cue. I guess brother needs to learn to cue now. Elaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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