Communication Is Key

com·mu·ni·ca·tion  - NOUN:  The act of communicating; transmission. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior.

I have always heard how important communication is; I have heard this since I was young and living at home.  Communication is something we learn when we are baby's; without it we can't get our needs met.  My son has few words that we understand and the one that everyone understands is all done and this is vital to him because it ensures that he can tell you when he doesn't like something, or he doesn't want to go outside, take a bath, eat whatever it is that I have put on his plate either way we get the message loud and clear.  My boy uses lots of signs to communicate to us and I will have to say that we have totally enjoyed learning sign language and have found it to be very useful when we want to talk to each other threw the window of the house.  People communicate to each other all the time when driving in cars.  The other night someone flashed their lights at me to tell me that my lights weren't on (not used to driving at night).  My daughter is starting to enter a major communicating burst in her life.  She has a phone now since Christmas and an iTouch that she does facetime with her friends on.  I often think about when I was just in high school and not having the ability to communicate with friends the way she does.  She is my social butterfly.  But how do you give a butterfly the freedom to fly without all the access of technology.  There is a lot of trust that goes into this and of course communication on our part to her about her limitations.  Honestly this isn't a post that is going to give you some big answer on how to handle this cuz we are taking it one day at a time.  We like that she can text her friend she has known since she was born, because without this she would never see her and lose touch and basically that is what all this technology has done for us it has brought us together, like it or not.  Unfortunately I have been without my phone for a couple of weeks now and I am no longer communicating with my friends.  Life moves on even when you don't have a phone, but know this I miss all my peeps.  So communication is key and I suggest we all embrace it.  So go and communicate that thing you were meaning to tell someone and don't wait another minute.