An ad in my local newspaper today for selling hearing aids:
"HEARING PROBLEMS?
Do You Hear but Not Understand?
Do People Seem to Mumble?
Do You Ask Others to Repeat?"
Are you kidding? Where do I sign up? This is exactly how I feel, particularly in trying to communicate with one of my little people (Elinor) lately. Numerous times a day I say,
"I'm sorry, I can't understand what you are saying"
"What is that?"
"Say that again?"
"Please speak clearly"
"Am I suppose to understand what you are saying?"
"Are you talking to me?"
"LOUDLY AND CLEARLY!"
Is it pregnancy related? Do I have a wax build-up in my ears? Do I have hearing damage from all of my screechy, high pitched squealing babies? Am I distracted? Am I just not listening?
Perhaps I need a mommy hearing aid.
2 comments:
Elinor is like my sister, Shaela. Growing up, she spoke softly and mumbled, and we always had to ask her to please repeat herself. My dad said she spoke Shaela-nese. It's not you Betsy.
Lately I have been wondering if I mumble because Eliza says "what?" to at least 80% of what I say to her. It drives me nuts! I always thought I talked loud until I met the Fox family and realized my people were small potatoes. I remember being told not to yell as a child. Baden remembers Dad Fox always saying "speak up son!" (Can you imagine saying that to BADEN!!!)
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