As parents, it is always important to make sure you know what you are talking about before you answer your child's question. This will be their basis to how they may react to things in the future. A father of a little boy with Down syndrome felt sick to his gut when he heard a father in a music store tell his son that Down syndrome is "an illness of not knowing anything."
Robb Scott from Truro, Nova Scotia was inside a video store when he heard the unbelievable explanation about Down syndrome from a father to his son. According to parenting.com, Scott decided to make a video as soon as he got in his car because he felt like he had to defend children with Down syndrome everywhere. He was trying to hold back his tears in the video. He said he felt like he failed his son.
"It's one of those moments where you don't know how to act; you don't know how to react. I didn't say anything. I'm not the type to get in people's faces. But I heard that voice in my head say, 'Tell him what it is.' And I didn't. And I let that ignorance grow in another generation and failed my son. I don't mean to get emotional about this and be an exhibitionist about this, but I have to reset that button, because I failed him in that moment," Robb said.
Scott openly said how Down syndrome changed his life. While tears are flowing from his eyes, he explained how fun, brilliant, amazing, funny and all other emotions involved in having someone with Down syndrome is. He ended it by saying, "They're great teachers, people with Down syndrome. It's not an illness. It's not even a disability."
The emotional video has reached over a million views since it was uploaded, People.com reported. The video was flooded with comments of encouragement and support from mostly parents of children with Down syndrome as well. A commenter wrote, "Just found out my little baby girl has downs so thank u so much for this video!"
