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[quote=Anonymous]I have three average, healthy kids. I keep running into doctors and school administrators intervening “in an abundance of caution“. One child is short, so a doctor ran blood tests, bone scans and several ped visits “just to be safe”. One child was an ounce short of regaining the recommended weight at the hospital breastfeeding, so they had to return to the doctor twice, “just to be safe”. The third was evaluated for torticollis and assigned 6 PTs because their head was “slightly tilted, just to be safe”. I went to one visit, copied whatever the PT showed me (I could have YouTube’d this) and never returned, the kid grew out of it within weeks. Recently, one child’s (age 7) teacher approached me about their handwriting and set a meeting between me, her and an OT to “discuss and evaluate strategies to address child’s handwriting”. The entire hour I sat in this meeting, I felt it was a waste of all our time. My kid knows how to write, they aren’t great at it and they are super lazy. There is nothing wrong with this kid that more practice won’t fix entirely.

Is this normal? Does everything a kid do need to evaluated by a professional? Or - if you get paid by the hour to use a hammer, will everything look like it needs nailing down?[/quote]

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