These Parents...

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I have been a school nurse for a while now and have noticed these parents have gotten way worse. I mainly deal with high school students so calling home to ask to leave before seeing the nurse is a big issue. And parents seem to be sitting at the door, keys in hand, waiting for sweet Susie to call; they are up here in a moment's notice to pull their kid out of school for the littlest things.  I think this is also somewhat contributing to the issue of this generation having ZERO resiliency. Any sort of friction and parents are there to save the day and it's always everyone else's fault. I also have the complete opposite of the spectrum of parents, have no idea where their kids are and what they are doing, ever.

I have a diabetic kid on a CGM and mom has the notifications shut off for it. She has told me "I can't stand to hear it beep." And the student has also told me mom keeps them shut off. Every few months it seems mom will check the kid's CGM and of course, it's like the singular time that week they have been "HIGH" two arrows up 🙄. And then proceeds to call me screaming that it's been high all morning and why haven't I addressed it?!?! Excuse me ma'am the bell literally just rang, and looking back it's been high for maybe 30 minutes. But thank you for stepping in to parent today, see you next month. 

This is basically just a rant post. Feel free to share your crazy parent stories or rant as well. 😝

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I haven't had too many parents on either end of the extreme just yet but it will happen.

I feel like parents of kids with diabetes are either super attentive and reasonable or the complete opposite. I do get the feeling of burnout with it but it's literally their life. 

On the other end I had a parent get mad I didn't let them know their kid thought it was too bright when he looked at the sun.

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