Ming from Agents of Speech talks to mothers doing speech therapy with delayed children about guilt, exhaustion, and burnout. She's coached nearly 300 of them and seen real speech gains when parents stick with it. The hard part: mothers need their own support and mental health care to keep going.
Being a mom is super exhausting. I'm nearly over 300 moms I've talked to now since the start of my career. And the common theme is that they feel guilty, they're not doing enough. They feel like, oh, it's my fault that this is happening. It's all in the moms, really. And I feel bad for it. And to tell you that I understand would be understatement because first of all, I'm not a female and I don't have kids yet. So I'm really extremely grateful for the moms who put in the work. And as you can see from agentsofspeech.com there are success stories of moms just keep on grinding until the kids start talking, which is something that I'm very happy and very grateful about because it is really stressful. There was a mother I've been coaching for the past year, years. She finally waved the white flag. She's like, I can't do this anymore. I need to take a break. The kid is finally relatively caught up. Not 100% yet, obviously, but she really needs to take care of her mental health right now because it's just been really stressful. Everything is on her. So I suggest to you, if you're not ready, then don't start. But if you are, go all in and make sure that you have support from either a therapist and also from other half your husband and.
