As many know I'm training and getting an education to become a Speech Language Pathologist. Currently, I help a little boy in clinic. He is awesome. He has improved SO MUCH from the beginning of the semester and pretty much has remediated the problems he had with his articulation.
Today we had a session. We were playing a game, saying some words and just talking. I told him my little sis would draw a cheetah for him and then he said, "Well, how are you going to get it. Do you even know where her house is?"
I reply, "Of course I do. I used to live there."
"Wait! Are you the mom or the sister?"
"I'm my sister Addie's sister."
"Are you the biggest in your family, cuz you're pretty big."
"(snickering) Yes I'm the biggest kid in my family but I have a mom and a dad that are bigger than me."
"Oh... but are you the mom"
"No I'm married but I'm not a mom yet. I don't have any kids. Now let's get back to work. K?"
I thought this was so funny. He cannot grasp the concept that I have a family and I'm not a mom yet but I am a sister and a wife. He is darling.
Then another funny thing happened today in the session. My client says, "Hey. Do you know where I live?"
I reply, "I don't but that'd be fun if I did, we could hang out and play soccer huh?"
(PS he loves soccer)
He says, "Ya, that would be fun but you would lose."
"Why would I lose?"
"Because you can't play soccer in high heels."
"Well, I have tennis shoes. I would play soccer in my tennis shoes."
In an accusatory voice he replies, "You don't have tennis shoes! All you have is high heels."
(I usually wear heels to clinic because we have to be in business attire.)
I reply, "I have tennis shoes, they're even pink!"
"Well if you do, you should wear them tomorrow."
"Maybe I will." (I really am thinking I will wear them tomorrow.)
I was dying laughing at this point. This little guy just sees me as the speech teacher. The girl that goes in there and just tells him how to say his /s/'s correctly. I don't have a family or pink tennis shoes.
