{"id":2031,"date":"2022-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2022-06-29T01:52:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:52:06","slug":"they-are-trying-to-talk-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/they-are-trying-to-talk-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"They Are Trying to Talk To You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Guther\u2019s parents gave him an incredible gift by gently encouraging him to journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydad.com\/please-encourage-them-to-do-this\/\">as we\u2019ve talked about<\/a>. His battle with a brain tumor would have been incredibly scary and overwhelming, but in those pages, he had a place to work out his thinking, to articulate his fears, and also just to entertain himself in those long days at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>But the journal served another purpose. As his father writes in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepaintedporch.com\/products\/death-be-not-proud?_pos=2&amp;_sid=7aaf0047a&amp;_ss=r\">Death Be Not Proud<\/a><\/em>, Johnny\u2019s parents came to understand that he \u201cwas using the diary&#8230;as an indirect way of conveying messages to us. He was inviting us to read it and so find out what he was thinking that he didn\u2019t wish to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kids struggle to communicate. Of course they do. They\u2019re small. They\u2019re scared. They don\u2019t have the words. They don\u2019t have the life experience to even know where to start when it comes to expressing themselves. So they find other ways to speak to us. As we\u2019ve said, the primary way that kids communicate is through behavior. They are constantly leaving us clues, hinting with what they do and what they <em>don\u2019t<\/em> say, trying to speak to us, trying to get us to understand things, even if they don\u2019t quite realize it. 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