Shouldn't a "Pediatric" in front of DR imply good with kids?

Okay moms and dads, you paying attention? Good now listen up. If you take your child to a DR, and they behave out of the ordinary from how they usually behave at a DR's office, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE DR NOT YOUR CHILD. There is nothing I despise more than someone who spent a million years getting educated to be a special DR that works with children, yet has no patience or skills with children at all. I personally know more than one DR who have no formal pediatric experience whatsoever, and yet they have an amazing ability to make children at ease within minutes. The raw truth here is, if you don't like children, and have no patience for them, DR or not, you should not be working around them. I don't really particularly care how wonderfully patient your staff is, your staff is not who I am there to see, YOU are. You have told my 3 year old to sit still more times than I do in a week, in less than 10 minutes, and said things like "Oh your usually so good I don't know whats wrong with you today". Do you have children DR pediatric specialist? If you do I would imagine you know THREE YEAR OLDS DO NOT SIT STILL. Let me break for a moment to gush as a mom. I have a wonderfully well behaved and super smart 3 year old son. He has been going to specialists since he was 2 years old, 2 different ones, and I have always been very proud of how he acts at his DR appointments, he sits still very well, listens, lets DR's bend his legs backwards and look in his eyes generally without moving such as an inch or two. This is why I bring this up. How is it, that all of a sudden, he started acting out of character for him? It seems to me that children pick up on a lot more than adults give them credit for, and this little guy picked up on DR pediatric specialists bad attitude as soon as DR walked into the room. Maybe DR was having a bad day, I don't know, wont pretend to know, but how is it that I have to let my child be affected by your bad day? Leave your baggage at the door and do your damn job as a DR, and quit being nasty to my 3 year old. Hes been through enough this past year and a half. Next time DR pediatric specialist, momma bear WILL come out, and let me give you a clue about momma bear. She isn't nice. Ask the pediatric allergist who crossed me last month how not nice momma bear is, I bet you already know the answer. Moms and dads are you still with me? I'm about to get to the moral of my little story. The moral of the story is this: You are the parent. I know what your thinking, You already knew that right? I know I know it sounds simple, but its not. You as the parent are the ONLY voice your child has until they find their own. You have to be an advocate for them. Don't be afraid to tell a Dr or a school teacher or a day care provider, NO you WILL do it MY way or we WILL go elsewhere. After all, kids are people too right? I thought you would see it my way.

The age of technology and judgement

Would you like to know what the first thing I hear when I get downstairs with my 3 year old is every morning? I know, your thinking "good morning mom", or "hi mommy I love you" or something endearing like that right? Nope. "Mom I wanna play the blues clues game on your puter". *slaps face* I could've had a v8. 3 years old and he navigates the nick jr website like a champ, and plays his, yes HIS iPod touch with utter ease (something his grandfather cant even figure out how to turn on by the way). Now here is where your thinking, here she goes, shes going to ramble on about how technology is ruining our children and blah blah right? Wrong again. You know what else my 3 year old can do? Say his ABC's, count to 20, say his full name and what street he lives on, throw a football better than I can, build a tower that would stop a train with a set of legos, and even read and spell certain small words like cat and dog. Every game he plays on my computer teaches him something new, and he surprises me every day with something else new he has learned. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating violent video games or letting your child zone out in front of a computer screen or TV screen all day, but lets face it, kids learn crap from technology. Its the facts dude. On the website I frequent called Cafe Mom, I see whom I dub "sancti mommies" (I will use this phrase alot) who claim things like "I only let my child have one hour of computer time a day" or tv time or "they can only have their cell phones or iPods for one hour after dinner". GREAT. Good for you. Want a cookie? I let my child play on my computer all the time, watch as much TV as he wants, and his iPod goes everywhere with him, and guess what? he STILL plays outside, reads books, and plays with his Thomas the train wooden railway set and his ten thousand Mr potato head pieces, just like any other kid does. Ladies and gentlemen, here is what it boils down too. Its the age of technology baby, deal with it! If you don't wanna let your kid play the computer all the time great! Good for you! Props and kudos and *sings* all that jazz. Just like everything else in life, we live and learn as we grow. Okay ill give you that twenty years ago our parents played with sticks and rocks and made tree houses in the backyard, and were extremely happy doing so, but can you deny that the more recent generations are well... quite simply, smarter? Maybe we've allowed them to also become LAZIER, but their brains are little sponges. They just SOAK in what we give them!! When you hear a mother say that her child is playing a game on the computer, don't scoff... that very child may very well be learning the foundations of what they need to know to cure cancer, or AIDS, or to discover life on other planets!