{"id":292082,"date":"2020-05-07T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1149414"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:25:00","slug":"kelly-clarkson-reveals-how-her-sons-hearing-issues-impacted-his-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kelly-clarkson-reveals-how-her-sons-hearing-issues-impacted-his-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson Reveals How Her Son&#8217;s Hearing Issues Impacted His Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.997727272727\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.427272727273\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_clarkson\">Kelly Clarkson<\/a><\/strong> is getting candid about the challenges her son is facing in his development.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/kelly-clarkson-son-remy-hearing-issues-earwax-buildup-mothers-day-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reveals<\/a> to&nbsp;<em>People&nbsp;<\/em>that her 4-year-old son&nbsp;<strong>Remington &#8220;Remy&#8221; Alexander<\/strong>&nbsp;has struggled with speech from a young age, something that&nbsp;was a huge concern for her and husband&nbsp;<strong>Brandon Blackstock<\/strong>. &#8220;He had a speech problem because he had this ear problem when he was a baby. We didn&#8217;t know,&#8221; Clarkson shares.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the singer,&nbsp;Remy &#8220;spoke as if he was underwater,&#8221; which briefly caused her and Brandon to believe he might be &#8220;deaf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the pair&nbsp;took him to a specialist and learned that&nbsp;his ears were &#8220;clogged up&#8221; with a &#8220;ton of wax,&#8221; thus causing the muffled hearing. Thankfully, she says this was a &#8220;simple&#8221; enough problem to fix, but&nbsp;this&nbsp;health issue &#8220;pushed him back almost nine months&#8221; in not just his speech development, but also his interpersonal skills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working really hard with his speech and he&#8217;s still doing his speech therapist via Zoom. The big milestone for us is Remy getting to really find out his own personality and his identity, because it&#8217;s been frustrating for him to not be able to really vocalize his emotion,&#8221; Kelly explains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020316\/rs_1024x759-200416121214-1024-kelly-clarkson-kids.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Kelly Clarkson, Remington Blackstock, River Blackstock\" alt=\"Kelly Clarkson, Remington Blackstock, River Blackstock\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Weiss Eubanks\/NBCUniversal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.074695121951\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"24.161585365854\">\n<p>Now, the family is happy to see him making progress after struggling for many months. She says, &#8220;The fact that he&#8217;s making full sentences now and full-on engaging with us is really a blessing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of the kids, Kelly jokes her quarantine situation is &#8220;kind of nuts,&#8221; as she, Remy, daughter&nbsp;<strong>River Rose<\/strong>, 5, Brandon and Brandon&#8217;s 13-year-old&nbsp;<strong>Seth&nbsp;<\/strong>are holed-up in a cabin as they wait out the coronavirus pandemic. She reveals she feels lucky though because&nbsp;they&nbsp;also brought their nanny&nbsp;<strong>Allie<\/strong>, who she thinks is &#8220;probably about to drive into a lake.&#8221; Allie has been a huge help as Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1147077\/watch-the-voice-coaches-have-a-virtual-happy-hour-to-prep-for-first-ever-remote-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues to be a judge<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em> and hosts her&nbsp;<em>Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1146631\/kelly-clarkson-tears-up-as-thomas-rhett-tells-the-story-of-daughter-willa-gray-s-adoption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from home.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jokes aside, she shares, &#8220;At the end of the day, I know people who have had coronavirus and I&#8217;m just very lucky and we&#8217;re very blessed to not have been sick,&#8221; she notes. &#8220;We keep reminding our kids of that and we keep reminding each other of that. But we definitely have some cabin fever going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">For the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic and for tips on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19, please visit The Center for Disease Control and Prevention at https:\/\/www.cdc.gov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1149414\/kelly-clarkson-reveals-how-her-son-s-hearing-issues-impacted-his-development?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Clarkson is getting candid about the challenges her son is facing in his development.&nbsp; She reveals to&nbsp;People&nbsp;that her 4-year-old son&nbsp;Remington &#8220;Remy&#8221; Alexander&nbsp;has struggled with speech from a young age, something that&nbsp;was a huge concern for her and husband&nbsp;Brandon Blackstock. &#8220;He had a speech problem because he had this ear problem when he was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-20 16:53:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}