Hi all,
I wrote last week about my DS's settling period at his nursery. Today, third of four settling in days, I had to leave him for an hour without me being in the room. When I returned the Manager approached me asked if DS responds to his name being called as they think he may have hearing problems.
I was shocked at this as firstly, they are assuming I am a moron who would not have, at some point noticed if my 19 month old child had hearing problems and secondly, how dare they make this assumption when they probably only spent 30 minutes with him (I got there late)
I told this Manager his hearing is fine, he had all the test in infancy and due to all the excitement of being in a new environment with so many new toys, he just wasn't paying attention to other things around him, plus he is the type of child who chooses when he wants to respond to people.
Last year when DS was 13 months, I took him to a Surestart Children's Centre and the Manager there suggested I take DS to seek help as he wasn't yet walking. I was very annoyed and retorted that every child is different and does things in their own time, plus he was alot bigger than the average baby, so has more weight to carry on his developing muscles and bones. It really annoys me that I have to explain myself to these so called child experts, who still don't get that all children are not popped out of the same mould.
Has anyone else experienced these do gooders making unjustified, opinionated comments? Would you take offence? Are they just trying to be helpful?