A 5-Year-Old Removed His Hearing Device To “Turn Off” Listening To His Mom, And The Internet Is In Tears

“When he was younger, it was a way for him to self-regulate and calm down. There would be times he would be having a meltdown, then take his implants off and immediately be more at peace. Now that he is older, he doesn’t take them off nearly as often,” Beth said. “But the important thing is that he KNOWS that he can and has every right to do so. We have tools in place in his preschool classroom for that exact reason. The beauty of it is that he gets to decide.”

You can see a video of how Cooper used to take hearing breaks versus now here.