My daughter is three and has a mild stutter. I don’t know if it’s just a phase or something more permanent, but we decided to start speech and language therapy (SLT) just in case. Since she’s bilingual, we had to find a therapist who speaks our language, which wasn’t easy in the UK. Eventually, we found someone qualified who seems good with kids, though she’s a bit firm and direct with me as the parent. The sessions are held at her house.
Here’s the issue: she insists my daughter needs to be alone for the sessions and has basically told me to “go get a coffee” for the hour. But she lives in a super residential area, I don’t drive, and we take a taxi to get there (she knows this). So my options are to sit outside in the freezing January weather or spend an extra £10-15 on taxis just to go find somewhere to wait, plus whatever a coffee costs, and rush the coffee as by the time I've found a taxi, reached a coffee shop, ordered etc, it's time to pick my daughter up. She’s let me sit on her sofa before but was clearly not happy about it.
AIBU to feel a bit put out by this? I get that some kids do better without a parent there, but surely she could be a little more understanding of the fact that I literally have nowhere else to go? Would it be unreasonable to push back on this a bit?