The Cambridge Dictionary defines enunciation as: "the act of pronouncing words or parts of words clearly." We have a speech crisis in America. A high percentage of current elementary children have a speech impediment. Cambridge defines impediment as: "something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible."

Far too many children cannot speak well enough to be understood...and it's at a crisis level NOW! Part of the root cause is spending too much time on technology instead of speaking with your own family or with other humans. The other part of the root cause, (in my opinion), stems from school closures during the pandemic. Extended school closures ruined the learning of many children and never did anything significant to "prevent" Covid. What we did "accomplish" was to create a generation of children who are mentally, physically, and spiritually damaged...and especially when it comes to speaking clearly enough to be understood. I expand on the above during this episode in hopes that it will create an awareness with adults who can take proper action to start talking with children--and in the same room together instead of being in the same room absorbed into their own tech devices.

*Photo by Ron Jones