My three-and-a-half-year-old son has been receiving language therapy at school for a couple of weeks because of certain difficulties in pronouncing some phonemes.
From what the therapist has told us, diction problems to pronounce correctly the k, d, g and r that Rodrigo has, are mainly because does not move the tongue correctly due to prolonged use of the bottle.
Until a couple of weeks ago, the first thing Rodrigo asked to wake up was his tete. For one reason or another, at home we told ourselves that it was time for him to leave it, but it never reached the final moment, reinforced with phrases such as: "Don't worry if Fulano took a bottle until he was six years old," or "but if only you take one a day. "
The truth is that prolonged use of the bottle and pacifier can cause children to have diction problems. The good news is that whenever they are detected in time they can be corrected very quickly.
Now at home I have a child who proudly and much easier than we thought he says he no longer takes tete and in just a couple of weeks he has achieved several of the phonemes he did not speak before. What at the bottom of my heart gives me a certain sadness because he no longer speaks like my baby, but at the same time it makes me proud to see him teaching me what he learned to say correctly.
