Milford chronicle., 1940-03-08
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"The Child'J First School is The
FdmiIy"-FRoEBEL
Issued By the National KindeTgarlen
Association, West 40th Street,
New York City
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VISITING THE DOCTOR
VISITING THE DOCTOR
Q 90
BERTHA YoUNKuN

BERTHA YoUNkTN
The door opened into the crowded
reception room.
Next" called the doctor. The
perspiTatiOn stood upon his forehead
from his exasperating work with the
last two children. The first had been
brought for simple vaccination and
| the second for a tOnsil examination.
and both had fought like young Wild
cats. Only with extreme control had
he resisted telling the fiuttering mo-
theirs to remember that after all he
was doctor. not a specialist in
problem children.
A neat little woman led her five
year-Old Nancy into the sparkling
white Office. II am Mrs. John Carter
and this is Nancy" she told him
pleasantly. as the child gravely ex-
tended her chubby hand.
How do you do, Miss Nancy,
smiled Or. Jones kindly.
First. let's slip OF this pretty
dress"
A look of bewildermeut. then stark
She shrank back against her mo-
thcr
why, Nancy, what is the matter?"
asked Mrs. Carter in surprise. Ger
tainly there was nothing about the
man or his shining Office to frighten
anyone.
"MOdesty?" questioned the doctor,
heaitsting.
why don't understand,
She never has been self-consciouS!
"Then come on. Miss Nancy. we'll
soon be through
But they didn't even begin. The
child. dressed only in her silk pan
ties. began TO sob and tearfully OBJ
iect. They reasoned. cajOled. then
threatened Nancy refused to stand
upon the scales. and the harmless
stethOscope brought forth terrified
walls
DIR. Jones gritted his teeth. Mrs.
Carter was flushed. distTaught and
too unnerved herself to be able TO
think She knew that TO the doctor
Nancy appeared TO be just one more
spoiled child She knew that some
how everything was terribly wrong.
Embarrassed and apOlOgetic, she left
and hurried the sObbing child home
to bed.
"It was dreadful" she wept, as
she told the story to John Carter
that evening. "I'll never get Nancy
inside a doctors Office again!"
There. there he soOthed. "We'Il
manage her somehow l was afraid
when you left that perhaps the child
should have been better prepared"
why, what do you mean?'
Before you took Nancy TO the
dentist. ON her own account. you al
lowed her to go when you needed
work done. and you let her sit on
your lap once when your teeth were
being examined. you will remember. !
The dentist looked at hers just for
fun, and now she loves to go to him. |
In that case The situation was prop |
eTly introduced. aud no fears devel-
oped.
In this case. so much time had |
elapsed since Nancy was last ex-
amiued that she couldn't even re- /
member ever having been in doc
tors Office before, and the whole !
thing was a mystery. She had not the /
faintc.it idea why a stranger would |
want to take her clothes off. She
grew excited and unable to reason
when you both insisted. Don't you
see how strangely you folks were
behaving from her viewpoint
John Carter was right The APP
proach to any entirely new expert
ence for a little child should be plan
ned th0ughtfully. The boy or girl
who has been properly prepared fer
A physical examination takes il as
much for granted as eating and
sleeping. u becomes a very normal
and interesting experience with one
Of his best friends. the family doc
tor.