PART 2 FOR LEARNING PROBLEMS

Friends and family will offer all sorts of "meaningful" advice and the mother, who is willing to help her child

in any way, will be only too grateful.

This book is aimed at helping parents pick up the little nudges and hints that indicate a problem from very

early in a child's life.

It is often very difficult for parents to find out and accept that their child has a problem. Often sub-consciously

this is because the parent realises that the child is behaving in a way similar to them and they had desperately

hoped the child would be different. A very real illustration would be my facial features. When I was pregnant

all I wished and hope for, beyond a healthy child, was that they would not inherit my Italian nose. ( Nothing

to do with genes of course!)

A very dear friend, who passed away, once commented that although I was pretty, it was really a big pity about

my nose. I grew up fiercely determined that none of my children should suffer the same fate ( as if I could change it!)

It is the same with parents who grew up struggling to cope academically at school or with sport. They desperately hope that their children will grow up to be doctors and world class sportsmen. When this does not happen, they are amazed and terribly disappointed.

Just as my Italian features were hereditary and part of my make-up and heritage, so a learning problem is hereditory.

Not the problem as such, but the tendency not to complete brain patterns. Just as the parents did not complete

their brain patterns.

There is a great deal that can be done to overcome this problem but acceptance of hereditory features and phenomena,

is the first step in any healing or improvement. We are born with our own unique set of genes heredited from our

parents.