Have you ever taken your child with you to your doctor/dentist appointment?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you unfamiliar with poor, single parents? I brought my daughter everywhere until she was old enough to stay home alone.

And I bet everybody just lived your whining, bored child!

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Anonymous wrote:No. They're not responsible for your child, you are. Leave her at home or reschedule. I've never brought any of my kids because you're not allowed to unless there's another adult there to watch them in the lobby.

Oh, please. I’m a SAHM and always had a baby or toddler in a stroller at my appointments (OB, eye doctor, dentist, primary care) until Covid when my DH worked from home. I’m not paying for childcare—I AM the childcare.

+1

I'd be too embarrassed to take my kid to a GYN appointment but I've taken my kids to dentist appointments, GI appointments, dermatology appointments, etc. When you're a SAHM and have major health issues you get really used to it. It's totally fine.

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Anonymous wrote:No. They're not responsible for your child, you are. Leave her at home or reschedule. I've never brought any of my kids because you're not allowed to unless there's another adult there to watch them in the lobby.

Oh, please. I’m a SAHM and always had a baby or toddler in a stroller at my appointments (OB, eye doctor, dentist, primary care) until Covid when my DH worked from home. I’m not paying for childcare—I AM the childcare.

Then stay home and take care of your child. Children are a royal pain in doctor/dentist offices UNLESS it is an appointment for the child. They whine, cry, tantrum and the parents are even worse!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but this was pre-COVID. And it was an OB appt when I was still breastfeeding. Post-COVID a lot of docs' offices have restrictions on bringing extra people. That would be my only concern -- an 8yo is old enough to entertain himself, read, etc. in a corner while I talk to the doctor.

Only you think your kid is cute. To the rest of society, he is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you unfamiliar with poor, single parents? I brought my daughter everywhere until she was old enough to stay home alone.

And I bet everybody just lived your whining, bored child!

If you want a place with peace and quiet, I recommend staying home, a library, an isolated area of a national park, etc.

Since this is DCUM I guess I need to add a disclaimer that that was sarcasm. I'm not PP but I always keep my kids as quiet as possible, unlike the adults watching things on their phones, the office itself who had decided that patients definitely want to listen to HGTV while they wait, the patient who insists with arguing with the receptionist about a co-pay, etc. I don't expect an irritation-free environment everywhere I go in public.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but this was pre-COVID. And it was an OB appt when I was still breastfeeding. Post-COVID a lot of docs' offices have restrictions on bringing extra people. That would be my only concern -- an 8yo is old enough to entertain himself, read, etc. in a corner while I talk to the doctor.

Only you think your kid is cute. To the rest of society, he is not.

Everyone things my kids are cute but that's not really the issue here. What parent is going to going to go through the hassle and expense of a babysitter just because you do'nt think the kid is cute?

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My sister and I spent hours in the waiting room of dentists, doctors, etc. when my mother was single.

I still remember the first time we ate at a restaurant alone. Mom gave us money and told us to go to the diner in the building lobby. We ordered grilled cheese and milk shakes. I felt so grown up!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes but this was pre-COVID. And it was an OB appt when I was still breastfeeding. Post-COVID a lot of docs' offices have restrictions on bringing extra people. That would be my only concern -- an 8yo is old enough to entertain himself, read, etc. in a corner while I talk to the doctor.

Only you think your kid is cute. To the rest of society, he is not.

PP why are you directing this toward my post? I personally am very "kids should be seen and not heard" in public with my toddler, probably to an extreme LOL

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Of course. I'm a single parent and I've taken my kid to every appointment I've ever had.

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Anonymous wrote:Yep, perfectly fine. Even if you're normally a "no screens" parent, I would make an exception and let him bring an IPad or something so that he'll sit quietly.

He should be able to sit quietly anyway. Does no one parent anymore?

My son loved looking at x-rays while waiting. Often the doctor or dentist would pull some up on his tablet so my son could look at them and ask questions.

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There was a time when adults were taught manners and, in turn, passed these social graces on to their children. That ended sometime in the 1980's when children born feral were never civilized. These feral adults have feral children and take them everywhere and don't just allow, but encourage, these creatures with humanoid features to scream, kick, and generally carry on as though they are Neo-Neanderthals.

My Ob-Gyn has a sign, "no children in examination rooms and no unattended children in waiting room.".