Posted on 05/03/2008 8:55:45 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Yep. I saw that....but chose NOT to go there & give the site any hits.
Bless my heart and all...
"Indeed. And forcing her to wear that red hat. Cruel."
Yes, she definitely looks as though she neglected to look in a mirror :)
But my comment as it pertains to this errant child is that maybe the mother was sick and distracted or perhaps she was distracted because her other child was sick. As one poster has pointed out, emergency room visits are usually protracted and kids can get very restless. The mom might have been frazzled because she was forced by circumstance to take her children with her to the hospital.
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You have got to be kidding me.
Thank you for that!
I appreciate your kindness — unlike the bastards that constantly post that horrific picture of Madeline Albright!! ;)
I have sympathy too, especially when we’re talking about an ER wait. It’s pretty difficult for even the best behaved toddler to sit for hours doing nothing. My older son and my stepdaughter, good toddlers. Could take them anywhere, they would sit in church or at a dinner, when you told them it was an occasion to sit and listen, they would (although they never got tested with an extremely long ER wait!). My younger son - he was like a little rocket. Into everything. Grocery shopping was really hard, even though I always made him sit in the cart, he was in constant danger of flipping out of it. He was like a little monkey. It was very difficult to take him anywhere. If we went out to eat infrequently, I spent the time between ordering and being served, out in the parking lot with him always.
It wasn’t lackadaisical parenting. The older two weren’t like that. He got spanked sometimes but it had no effect. You can’t punish a toddler by taking away things like you can an older child- he had no video games or cell phone or driving privileges. Trying to engage him in quiet activities was useless. Put him in an ER waiting area for hours would have been my worst nightmare. Putting him in a treatment room for a few hours with hundreds of things he shouldn’t touch would have been crazymaking too. I took my oldest last fall to the ER for suspected appendicitis and I’m glad my younger was old enough to stay at the neighbors because if it had been when they were young and we’d had to have been at the ER for 10 hours, I can just imagine what havoc he would have caused!
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#31 looks like someone signed up to spam FR.
This is equivalent to using the church directory for a mailing list for your private business, to drum up business for yourself.
I don’t think it’s looked upon very favorably by management, especially coming from a newb who puts it in her first post ever.
What’s the policy on advertising like including links to outside enterprises on FR?
Kids really don’t belong in hospitals unless they’re patients.
Hospitals should crack down on that kind of behavior, no second chances. Strike one and you’re out.
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