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Some possibilities- Your child may not like the doctor you've picked out. The child may want a doctor of the same sex. If you go into the examining room with your child and doctor, your child may want you to stop doing that. Just have a conversation with your child.
Yearly physicals, required by schools or not, are not negociable. Having blood work etc is important, and could show any potential health issue.
I would let the teen pick his/her physician if needed, but that's it. Don't forget s/he may have something going on s/he might be ashamed if (could be as simple as weight or something s/he doesn't want to show or talk about), so being comfortable with the doctor is key.
Why make him/her go if he's/she's healthy?
No school I know of requires a physical for it's students.
Forcing the child to go will just make him/her angry at you and doctors in general. What for?
Because you don't know that your child is healthy. My parents certainly had no clue that I had stage IV cancer when to the layman, I looked and felt fine for the most part.
Why make him/her go if he's/she's healthy?
No school I know of requires a physical for it's students.
Forcing the child to go will just make him/her angry at you and doctors in general. What for?
Oh no - an angry teen. How odd. We can't have that....
I doubt this situation is real - looking at some of the OP's other posts, I'm doubting he's a parent or a teen. He hasn't offered any more details so I'm guessing he has some vague scenario in his head and is tossing it out to see what happens.
If this situation were true, I don't think avoiding good habits because it *might* make a teen angry at you, is a good foundation on which to make parenting decisions.
A child who has routinely had physicals should not be upset by it. If he/she is, I'd sure want to know why. That's a pretty big thing in my opinion.
There are a whole slew of things we "force" on our children that they might not like but we do anyway because ultimately we are responsible for their well-being, even at the risk of *maybe* upsetting them:
eating a balanced diet
going to bed at a decent hour so they get enough sleep
dental hygiene
manners
school/homework
safety habits like seatbelts and helmets
Lets say that for whatever reason your teenager refuses to see the doctor that you want to send him or her to for a standard physical. Usually physical exams are required once or twice annually by schools so in order to attend school a student needs to undergo a physical but lets say your teenage child doesn't want to see the particular doctor you're sending them to and simply refuses to go?
Taking them to A doctor is important - but if they don't want to go to THAT doctor, find another.
And then find out what that doctor did that makes your teenager not want to go back to him/her.
Lets say that for whatever reason your teenager refuses to see the doctor that you want to send him or her to for a standard physical. Usually physical exams are required once or twice annually by schools so in order to attend school a student needs to undergo a physical but lets say your teenage child doesn't want to see the particular doctor you're sending them to and simply refuses to go?
A doctors visit for a teen to attend a school? Never heard of such a thing.
A doctors visit for a teen to attend a school? Never heard of such a thing.
In my district all 6th graders and any child coming into the district is required to have a physical, an eye exam, and a dental exam.
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