To all of you doctors and other health care professionals that work with children, my many thanks and appreciation to all of you! You do not have an easy job, yet at times I'm sure you really enjoy the innocence of childhood when you work with children!
Let me explain where all of this is coming from today. Stephen had an appointment with our pediatrician whom we have come to know and love. Dr. Rosner has been there for all three of the boys immediately after birth, when they went back in a week later for jaundice and several times since then for miscellaneous reasons. Today was one of those reasons and I'm convinced again that Dr. Rosner is wonderful! Not only did she solve the mystery of Stephen's problem, but she did such a thorough exam on him that she also identified another issue that is totally unrelated, but she feels should be dealt with now (specifically his toe-walking tendencies! :).
The thing that impressed me the most today was a comment that she made to Stephen that I wasn't expecting, maybe because I live such a sheltered life. One of the parts of her exam today included her checking Stephen's private parts. While she was examining him, she was telling him over and over very emphatically that under no circumstances was it ok for anyone besides his mom and dad and his doctor to touch him there. She made him repeat what she was telling him and then told him that if anyone besides his doctors touched him there, he needed to tell me immediately no matter what. I was very impressed how she got his attention and looked him right in the eye to make sure he understood her. I guess it caught me off guard because I would never even THINK that anyone would touch my little boy inappropriately. Up until now he has been pretty much in our care, or the care of other brothers and sisters in Christ that would never consider doing something so disgusting to a child. How sad that our world has become so ugly that we have to warn our innocent little children about something that they shouldn't even have to know about!
Once again, this incident at the doctor's today reminded me to pray so fervently for our boys, that they would retain their innocence and stay pure despite the world's wickedness. How I wish I could shelter them from all evil out there and keep them so pure and unspotted! I know that we cannot keep them from ALL evil, but I pray for wisdom every day to keep them as far away from it as possible.
Thank you, doctors and health care professionals, for your work and for your desire to protect our children! May God bless you for your persistence and patience in taking care of our children!
3 comments:
How interesting that you post this today. Dear friends of ours are dealing with this very issue. A little girl on the kindergarten bus asked our friend's daughter to come to her house and participate in some activities that NO child should understand. Fortunately, Latrice, our friend's daughter, felt something was wrong with the idea and told her mom and dad right away. As it turns out, Latrice's classmate AND her sister have been abused pretty severely and had she not told Latrice, it would still be secret.
While we grieve that this other little girl has had to live such horrors, we rejoice in the Holy Spirit's prompting in Latrice to tell her mom. We rejoice in the trust that Latrice has in her parents (she's originally from Cleveland's foster care system). What if that other little girl had told someone else? The abuse would still be happening.
How sad that our children have to deal with issues at such early ages now. As parents, I guess we keep praying protection around the babies and fill them up with the love of Jesus.
Katie
PS: What's going on with the toe walking thing? Is it a tendon or just a goofy boy thing?
Oh, Katie! That's terrible for Latrice to have been exposed to this, but thank the Lord for her parents' teaching.
His toe-walking is just a bad habit (seems to run in the family w/cousins on both sides having issues here!), but it's early enough that she feels a few physiotherapy sessions will help him to let go of these tendencies. Are your boys toe-walkers?
Remember "tippy toe, Timmy?" not only did he walk on his toes. but bent them backwards to do so! Then once I found out he did it because his shoes were too small and couldn't straighten out his toes, but didn't want us to know it since U. Endre was trying to start his real estate business and Tim thought we wouldn't have $$$ for his shoes! I just love that still little guy of mine!
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