The other night, I was talking to Jiyeon, and something she said to me really hit home, which was “Well, I guess that ABR is going to stop for Junegee when the baby is born.” What she meant by this is that since she has been doing the vast majority of manual and ball rolling exercises, she was concerned that once our 2nd son was born, she’d no longer have time to do this, and then Junegee’s progress would suffer accordingly. This made me sad, but instead of staying sad and resigned to this reality, I made a change in my behavior. I have a fairly demanding job, one that has historically required me to stay at the office until around 6:30 each day, and so, by the time I would get home, dinner was already happening, and then after dinner, the rest of the nighttime routine would follow (bath, changing, reading and then bed for Junegee), which left little to no time to get any non-machine ABR exercises in for the day. So, for the past 2 nights, I’ve been leaving work “early” (around 5:30), so that I can be home in time to do some ball rolling exercises with Junegee before dinner, and then, if need be, I can do some work at home after he goes to bed. Basically, I had the realization, and it makes me upset that it took Jiyeon saying what she said for me to realize it, that Junegee’s therapy is the most important thing we can do for him right now, and that it shouldn’t be Jiyeon’s full responsibility to get the time in. He is our son, after all, and I love him more than anything in the world, and should and will act accordingly. I will keep this up.
*pun completely intended.
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