11/04/2026
My 4-year-old asked me something the other day that really made me pause…
“When will I stop eating breakfast?”
At first, I was confused. But then it clicked.
In his world, adults don’t eat breakfast — because he doesn’t see us do it. We feed the kids first. We eat later.
Sometimes we skip it altogether.
And just like that, he’s built an understanding of what “growing up” looks like.
This is how children learn. Not just through what we say,
but through what they see, experience, and notice every single day.
As speech pathologists, we often talk about modelling language… but we’re also modelling routines, expectations, and ways of being. Those little everyday moments? They matter more than we think 💭