The Intentional Father

So begins the In the initial visit with my son I witnessed a child who was bright smiled yelled stomped his feet and screamed. It was not that he could not talk he would not talk. He had his own language created in his mind to get his needs satisfied as a result of them not being met prior. I was told that he could only say 7 words all in Spanish. I went to a corner on this initial visit and sat there with a book and a stuffed bear and waited. Ever so slowly he approached me would touch me and run away and giggle. Eventually he sat in my lap and looked at me for a while with his social worker the foster mother and my adoption worker looking on he put his hand on my face and said daddy. This was not one of the words that he knew and it was not in Spanishso it began.