Down with Barriers..

One of the most precious moments a special mom wants to experience is seeing her child interacting with another child and actually enjoying that playtime. My daughter, Alexandra has always had difficulties accepting and tolerating other children. She has even shown intense fear from kids on many occasions. We haven’t yet been able to determine why that is. We do know that the high pitch sound of children will scare her to no end. Sometimes we attribute her fear of children to her associating kids to the doctors' offices she had spent a good portion of her childhood visiting.

With that said, I had been thrilled the past few months to witness an angelic friendship developing between my Alex and another little girl we met at a nearby library. It is amazing to notice that, to this other girl, my Alex is just another child who is her best friend. She looks forward to our weekly visits and just enjoys reading to my daughter, walking holding her hand or just learning a few sign language words in order to be able to communicate with Alex. When the two girls are together, Alex’s limitations don’t matter, and her challenges just disappear. During those two hours my daughter becomes one of the crowd, just another little girl having fun with her best friend..

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