Parents, when confronted with a problem relating to their child, often hark back to the golden era of their childhood when things were “different “. In this context, the word “different” is definitely used to imply that things were “better”. Firstly, it is highly debatable if any change can be entirely negative. Secondly, it is futile to bemoan changes which are clearly irreversible. And the changes we see around us definitely are. New days require new ways and adaption remains the key to good parenthood. The area of child development where rapid changes have been most obvious is language fluency...