revelation:)

Every Friday I wake at 7 and have to go babysit the whole day. The children I babysit for are fun, adorable, and smart!! One is a little boy just over a year old, the other is a 4 year old downsyndrom gril. Because of her needs she is more around the mental stage of a 2 yr old. Today as I got home, my brother in a joking way( he really isnt a bad person:))said hwo was babysitting the "retard". Now after I heard this i flipped out at him!! Now as I am older and am actually interacting with a special needs child, I am completly offended and alarmed by this. We were alwasy tought to never say "retard" as a adjective to describe someone. Now everytime someone uses it in that text, I tell them not too. This little girl, is the cutest smartest, helpful child. She even uses sign language for words she doesnt know because her speech is not that developed yet. This experioce just shows how sometimes it takes and event or interaction to know what is right na dwrong. Now i relize how horrible it really is to say that. This is an amazing oppportuity for me to be working with her, she has tought me alot also:)