I crossed the line with a friend of mine. what should i do??

her son needs help with his speech. it's a long story, but basically everyone in our group of friends agrees that his speech is well behind his age, but no one wants to say anything.

of course, i'm a bleeding heart for kids and i keep her kids for a few hours 2 nights a week. i try to work with him, but it's not enough time and i'm not a professional.

anyway, i mentioned something to her about it today and i think i went about it the wrong way and i think i crossed the line. i could tell b/c she started getting really defensive and i said "i'm sorry, i crossed the line. i shouldn't have said anything. i just have a tendency to say what's on my mind...i'm really sorry. i won't bring it up again."

honestly, though, he's going to start school soon and his speech sounds like it's another language. i mean, words don't even sound remotely like what they should sound like. she knows this b/c SHE can't even understand him sometimes.

anyway....what should i do?? i feel awful

I crossed the line with a friend of mine. what should i do??c programming

I don't think I'd keep apologizing. You said you were sorry, but you also brought something up that she needed to hear.

It's hard to hear the truth sometimes. My friend's son also has a speech problem. Can't understand a darn thing that comes out of his mouth and I mentioned it to her. I also told her that she could hate me if she wanted to, but since he'd be starting school soon, she needed to know and get that kid into speech therapy because, like it or not, we do NOT live in a perfect world and kids are mean. The way her kid was talking, he was VERY likely to be picked on.

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I crossed the line with a friend of mine. what should i do??

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