Father of two little girls, the oldest is 2.5 years and youngest 3 weeks. Been a stutterer my whole life. Pretty fluent these days though I do get stuck occasionally. Luckily, my oldest talks like auctioneer with a meth habit; smooth, fast and constant. Takes after her mama that way! I have my fingers crossed she won't end up taking after me. I don't ever remember not being in speech therapy. When my memory really kicks in at 4 or 5 it was a normal thing. It helped. Mostly. I'd improve then relapse as events in my life transpired. I leveled off at my current fluency when I was 25 or so. Now at 38 it would take a trained ear to catch me. Blocks i do have are soft and quick unless I'm really stressed. The best thing a speech therapist ever taught me was to just stop trying when i got stuck bad. I don't know about you but i can always feel the blocks. Like a knot in my brain, I feel then form and then untie themselves. The harder I tried to just push past them the tighter the knot would get. Once I learned to just stop, relax and let the knot unwind itself my speech improved over night. The odd thing is that I learned that just because I was stuck on one word didn't mean I couldn't say other words. I could actually say to a person "Sorry, I'm stuck on that word, give me a sec." It was a well rehearsed speech that I used often for years. The other thing that changed when i was mid 20's was that I truly gave up caring what others thought. Very freeing.