"I'm just not in the right condition to stay in school"

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

said a second grader to me a few minutes ago :roflmao: This kid is very anxious, very dramatic. I spent a long time talking him off the ledge and he kept repeating this over and over. C/O nausea, stomach ache, his typical stuff. I finally called mom b/c he was refusing to leave my office and was hysterical. Mom talked to him for 5 minutes and in the end she caved and is coming to get him :facepalm: Of course, now that he knows he is going home he is miraculously cured. I told mom this is an unexcused early dismissal.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.

... and mom doesn't care. This is why we are where we are.

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Specializes in School Nursing, Pediatrics.

DRAMA QUEENS!!! My school is full of them, and start out so young too, like in K!! Parents just give in! Crazy!

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

I feel bad for the parent. She just upped the ante. Kid's going to have to produce that level of drama and then go over to get more attention....

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Specializes in ER.

This is what creates a hypochondriac. America, as a whole, needs a kick in the backside. Instead, we are raising a generation of neurotic weaklings.

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Specializes in NCSN.
DRAMA QUEENS!!! My school is full of them, and start out so young too, like in K!! Parents just give in! Crazy!

They do start in K! I find it incredible that I can talk with a parent, explain that their LD is FINE but refusing to leave my office and they still choose to believe their little one over me time and time again.

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I feel bad for the parent. She just upped the ante. Kid's going to have to produce that level of drama and then go over to get more attention....

I feel bad for the KID.

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