Michelle A. asked, My six-year-old and my three-year-old had well child visits yesterday. Our physician (who I know is uneasy about homeschooling) asked if we were still homeschooling our kids. Then he started asking the six-year-old what subjects she studies, got out a pen and paper and asked her to do things like write her name and draw pictures, and then got out a copy of National Geographic and asked her to read a caption to a picture. The first word was caribou. Of course she didnt read it. While nothing was said to me or her, I felt pretty uneasy about her being put on the spot like that- especially over a word that many of the third graders I used to teach would have asked for help with. Then he started telling me how the three-year-old (who just turned three in April) should be learning letter sounds and beginning to sound out words... I am wondering if this line of questioning is typical, particularly for a six-year-old well visit, or if it was out of the ordinary. Aside from this area, we love our physician for many reasons. This includes his willingness to not treat outside his specialty and send any of us to specialists as needed. Im not thinking we will change physicians over this, but may discontinue well-child visits, particularly for the older children, at this point. We have nothing to hide academically, but as a former public-school educator, I am well aware how a snapshot mini test by someone in this situation can send a completely inaccurate message about a childs progress as well as send a strange message to the child. I guess my questions are: Is this a normal part of well-child visits? Was my physician overstepping? Was he doing his job (regardless of how I felt about it)? Is this something physicians are encouraged to monitor?
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 21:17:23 +0000
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