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Drugs, Violence & a 7 Year Old

2016-04-11 by dadgoesround 4 Comments

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“If you are going to fight taking your medicine anyway, then I am going to sit on you, pry your mouth open and force it down your throat.”

That was me a couple of weeks ago – being all kind and fatherly. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Health, Parenting Tagged With: Consent, drugs, kids, medication, parenting fail, Violence

Vaccines and Consent

2015-01-03 by dadgoesround 7 Comments

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Today I took my two oldest daughters (8 and 6) to get the flu vaccine at the pharmacy. My wife got hers before Christmas and we have to take our youngest to the doctor for the shot since she is too young to get it done at the pharmacy. I filled out the requisite forms and went through the pros and cons with my daughters and asked for their consent before I signed to give consent on their behalf. I want them to feel and have some degree of control over their own bodies and optional medical treatments are one opportunity where I can give them some control and help to educate them about making decisions regarding their bodies. I also know that my six year old is not a fan of vaccines and I had hopes that giving her a sense of control would make the actual process better. Boy was I wrong. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Health, Parenting Tagged With: Consent, DadBloggers, Influenza, kids, medical consent, Vaccine

Consent and the Six-Year Old

2014-10-29 by dadgoesround Leave a Comment

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Last night I took my six year old – the stubborn one – to the emergency department at the children’s hospital. She fell off the monkey bars after school and hurt her arm. It seemed likely that it was broken so I took her to the ED to get checked out. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Fatherhood, Parenting Tagged With: childhood, Consent, DadBloggers, Fatherhood, kids, Parenting, pro-choice

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