Where Have All the Ears Gone?

I KNOW I'm not the only parent with this problem, but I will lament anyway.

What is UP with kid's ears? They work when they're born, but right about the time they start gaining mobility, they have a sudden loss of hearing. It starts out as a faint glimmer, then progresses until they are seemingly completely deaf by the time they are old enough to have to start being helpful.

And when their hearing sporadically returns long enough to hear you speak, they immediately have a meltdown. As though you asking them to put their own clean clothes away is going to cause them to shrivel and die. Or having to help unload the dishwasher is the latest form of torture, not too far from water boarding.

Then, of course, they wonder why they don't get to do fun things. Thank goodness most of them have a miraculous hearing restoration about the time they graduate high school. (MOST. You do have the 35 year old 'children' that wonder why their life sucks. But that is a whole other story!)

So, parents of the world, we are not alone and, one day, our children will be healed! :)