A Lesson in Patience

By Loretta Wellard

A Lesson in Patience is an honest, informative and personal story about parenting a child with significant developmental delays.  As a first-time mother, Loretta Wellard, shares her experiences to bring awareness, knowledge and understanding, in a memoir about raising her beautiful boy who is not quite reaching some of those m

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wellard Executive
• Release date: Feb 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9780648492115

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Introduction

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

– Joyce Meyer

A clap, a kiss, a followed instruction – are things that most parents take for granted. When your child has any type of developmental delay, the smallest of milestones is a cause for extreme celebration because you know how hard it is to get there.

It has taken a while to get to a point of acceptance; I no longer look at other kids and envy their parents. One of the first things I did was unsubscribe to all of those baby milestone emails. If your child is not hitting every single bullet point in those emails, you feel like a failure. Not good for you, not good for your child. Every journey is different, every child is different. The motherhood role is like evaluating the competition before you go for a job interview. There will always be someone better or not as good, so it’s just best to keep the focus on yourself and your own goals. I like to put my energy towards things that I can control.

A purposeful mind-shift is required to get to a point where you feel empowered and no longer embarrassed or envious. George will sometimes do some ‘out of the box things’, but I can’t control this behaviour and he is just being him; this is one of the reasons that I love him so much and I will never be ashamed of my son. He is not a ‘cookie cutter kid’ and I wouldn’t want him to be any other way. I know that I am doing all that I can, to give George every opportunity to grow and learn, and the rest is up to