The other day I was telling Kelly how I seem to have to ask Travis to repeat what he’s saying a few times. Travis always has a lot to say regardless and I don’t always listen as closely as I could as that would be akin to drinking from a firehose. Even so, it seems that more often I have had to ask him to repeat himself. Kelly responded that the issue isn’t all mine, that Travis does have a habit of mumbling at times.

I also know that my hearing isn’t what it used to be, and that thought brought me back to when I was Travis’s age. I would mumble as a kid and thought it was strange when my parents or other grownups couldn’t understand me. Now as I’m older I appreciate how much more acute a kid’s hearing is compared to an older adult. I have to say that it’s a little uncomfortable being on this side of the communicaton gap!