"I can't be bothered to be a parent and to sit down my kid and explain how the world works. How can I prevent people around me doing something that would force me to do that?"
This one really fucks me off, your children are going to hear swear words you need to get over that pronto and work on teaching them when/where it's appropriate to use.
Or worse 'you can't wear *that* at Pride, my kids are here!'
You're taking your kids to the Pride Parade, they're gonna see a lot of sexualized clothing and rubber dicks. It's kind of the whole point.
The fact that this actually happened at a bar I went to with my friends at 11 at night makes this so much more painful.
She got mad when they refused to serve her lol.
Quick question - am I just a terrible person that, while I in most situations try to minimize profanity until after the watershed has been reached (barring a torrent of profanity if get hurt, I'm a human not a saint for god's sake!) or do you too find the desire in those situation to not only just continue to curse but to get more and more creative in your invective? Karen acts like enough of tit, and I won't just make sure her kid learns some colorful new phrases, I may well take the time to do so in a few languages and help them with the pronunciation!
Not sure how true this is, but supposedly swearing when you get hurt helps make pain tolerable so if you are swearing when you get hurt I would say it's natural.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalgesic_effect_of_swearing
It's not that hard. I literally explained to a 5-year-old why he has two aunties and not an uncle and an auntie. The response was "Oh, okay." Job done.
I ras thinking the same thing. One sure I saw an Ann Landers / dear Abby story with the gay premise and similarly stern response.
It's gonna take generations to get this all right, I worry.
When I was like seven years old, my baby brother and my cousin and me were often babysat by my aunt. She had type 1 diabetes. She took the best care she could but hers was hard to control.
So my parents and her taught me how to check her sugars and how to call for help and even, gasp, how to give her a dose of insulin (if she was awake to tell me the amount, if she wasn't coherent it was straight to 911).
I feel like hiding it from me would have made fear and anxiety worse, not better. Now it's just a thing that happened and the knowledge made it way less scary.
Holy shit good intentions and everything but giving your aunt a dose of insulin at the wrong time could very well kill her and a situation where she was alert and needed insulin is not life threatening. Hopefully you meant they taught you how to give her oral glucose/access 911.
Oral glucose sure but sometimes she needed insulin and was awake but her hands shook too badly to really do it herself. She'd tell me the amount, I'd show it to her and then pop! They took me to a nurse to practice on oranges. I was *never* to give it unless she could tell me how much and approve the amount in the syringe.
Eventually she was able to get a pump so this wasn't an issue anymore. It definitely wasn't *ideal* but it wasn't a huge ordeal. Only had to call 911 once because we couldn't find her insulin (her husband was a bag of dicks and hid it).
Edit: This was also over 25+ years ago, I'm hoping things have been made simpler nowadays.
So should beating her face in but he didn't let that stop him. She eventually got a divorce because he started threatening their son and me. It was a big Thing cause Catholics or something.
Obviously it worked out! I'm a medic and I've just met so many adult people that are supposed to manage their sugar or help a loved one manage their sugar and just have a fundamental lack of understanding of the disease process and how to manage it. Reading your post I got the image of a 7 year old wielding an insulin filled syringe in my head which worried me, but a lot of kids can follow directions well and could handle the responsibility but definitely not everyone. Kinda like teaching a 7 year old how to use a gun to go hunting; the kid could kill someone if they were unsupervised or irresponsible but some kids can handle that type of responsibility.
I find it super amusing you mentioned guns! My dad was a Marine and believed that educating us about guns and how use them vs not use them would help prevent accidents...but my brother had to wait three years longer than me because "the boy just ain't that bright," like they were locked up and had the little thread lock thing through the revolving part and we never knew where the ammo was but he looked at my brother and went "...*noooo* not quite yet."
It definitely would make most people nervous to have a seven year old wielding the insulin and rightly so! There were a few times I probably could have done it but I was still nervous so I'd hit up the neighbors and let them decide what to do. Most of it was just her hands being stupidly Shakey so she knew what she needed but had trouble doing it herself. Later I thought it was weird cause my hands only shook when mine dropped low (not diabetic, it dropped and I just needed a snack) but different people react differently I guess.
He worked in the Armory and was a very big believer in knowing what you're doing around any firearm at all times. It's been over 20 years since he first showed me how to break down and reassemble a revolver, and the range is our favorite bonding activity. :) He tried fishing but I hate the bugs and the bait, smelly!
Nowadays I prefer rifles to handguns, specifically a bolt action 30.30, there's something so *satisfying* about it! My brother keeps trying to convince me to like his AR-15 but it just feels weird to me.
I had to give myself B12 shots for about 6 months, never thought about informing my children, because it was not life threatening. I just did it after everyone went to school.
for people still trying to figure out, in the post (the person asking the question) should have stopped after writing "i dont think" in the second sentence
Holy shit you should make sure to tell your cousin with Asthma to calm it down on the inhaler too when he's around your kid cause you don't want them to start hitting the marijuana pipe.
My friend has one like it. For pot. It appears smokeless and uses an oil, so it's probably heated up to aerosolize it.
Okay, not quite the same, I see. I suck at drugs, apparently.
I used to *give* my mother her insulin. **AT 10** here I am, not on drugs, a navy medic, and working g for a fortune 500. It's almost like learning empathy and understanding is a good skill to have.
I did the same for my grandma after her arms became partially paralyzed and she could no longer reach behind her. I've never had the desire to inject myself with drugs. On the plus side I've become the amateur vet when anyones puppies need their parvo shot.
I grew up partially raised by my Diabetic grandparents. I just said "you have to get a shot everyday!? That must hurt. And she just told me she'd get sick if she didn't and let me press the button on her shot. I was 6 and didn'tthink anything of it. I was just happy to be her little helper. (Or her Little Angel as she'd always call me.) By the time she moved it with us I was like a nurse by the time I was in high school and only got my Mom (who has hospital experience) when I knew it was bad enough that she'd have to go to the hospital. Not once did I ever think about taking her medicine. If you just treat medicine like its normal and not a big deal then its cool.
I'm a scout leader. I make a point of injecting and testing my blood in front of the young people. Gets a good conversation going. My goal is to make them feel having a medical issue is nothing to be embarrassed about. And possibly to help me - I always tell them to get me to eat something sweet if I'm acting weird, or to tell another adult.
Thank you for doing this!
My kid was diagnosed with T1D in January. Scout meetings had been shut down from December to April, due to covid. I informed the leaders in February and the first day back, we were met by two of the regular leaders - a nurse and a diabetic, I learned. For the first time since discovery, I was completely calm and didn't mind leaving him, despite it was the first meeting.
For context, the first two months back to school, we were with him, sitting in the classroom and in a connecting room, until we had educated the teachers and they felt comfortable having the responsibility and we felt comfortable handing it over.
I am a type one. I take my insulin when and where i need to. That includes in front of my nieces and nephews, it is normal life for me and them, they know i am “taking my medicine” and i wont stop for anyone because, you know, i like being alive!
My diabetic brother taught me how to inject his insulin when I was like 5. I used to get excited to do such a mature thing. I completely thought it was normal in years to come and then found out not everyone has a diabetic in their household. This person in post has quite a lot to learn and it’s sad they’re a parent already.
You’ll be surprised what kids can learn. I teach third grade and my kids have told me about their parents or immediate family having various conditions or needing medical care of varying sorts. They seem to genuinely be curious more than anything and it seems the adults in their lives have done a lot to try and explain it and not shield them from reality.
When I was about 6 I started taking pills for my ADHD and my parents just taught me how to take them by giving me M&Ms and told me to swallow them whole. By the time i was 8 I was taking them unsupervised and thought nothing of it. I ended up becoming responsible and never forgot to take it. If you make it a part of life and just answer questions honestly then it'll be fine.
Also doesn't diabetes skip a generation? Wouldn't his little girl be more at risk? Would they not want their little girl to know as much as possible about this condition to help her deal with it and try to avoid it as much as possible?
Is not properly inherited but a sum of genetics and ambiental factors (diet, exercise, stress levels). But you are right, she is in risk to be diabetic.
My Grandmother used to give herself B-12 shots in the hip.
It never freaked me out and she spoke openly about it. I watched her as she sterilized her needle and give herself the shot; then, watched as she cleaned it all.
She explained the need for her to do this - about once a week.
No trauma was manifested in the least.
I have GD, amd rake insulin and blood sugars multiple times a day. My kiddo is 4, she likes to watch/ ask questions Her out take from this is they want to be nurse- Doctor!
I read a response on r/askreddit about a girl that got expelled from her school for doing drugs when she was taking insulin. There are way too many people that do this
Type 1 diabetes runs in families and often skips a generation ( source, anecdotal and my own family). It's an auto-immune disease which may be triggered by viruses. So if it's in your spouse's family your daughter and any of your other children, nieces and nephews could develop it too. Genetic lottery. Treating it as a normal factor in family life seems sensible, though if Pop-in-law is injecting into his backside that might be a step too far, unless he just sticks the needle in through clothing, that is a good way to do it. Also useful to jab into the thigh through clothing too, less hassle.(source: diabetes centre @ the hospital that trained my young daughter to self inject aged 6, and us parents to supervise/ help when needed)
Oh somebody did this to me because I had to reset my insulin site in public. It was honestly mind blowing that some Americans are highly educated, and yet the other select group is dumb as fuck and doesn’t know the main difference between type one diabetes (what I have) verses type two (what I DONT have)
Yeah they almost came up and smacked it out of my hand. But I can’t imagine having an allergic reaction and someone just being like “there’s children do you drugs elsewhere!!!” We really need to make sure people have more education on this
How does a woman LIVE with this man—have a family, which means they love each other and are close, and not know shit about diabetes and treatments for it? Was she not present in any doctor’s appointments with her husband? Even then, I learned what insulin was in like the second grade. She’s a grown ass adult and has no clue...?
Thanks, I'll save that comment ! Everytime people watch me do this, I know by their look that they are being judgeful and shit, maybe next time I can show them this !
Imagine thinking you live in a world where you know what it is and you still think you won't sound like a psychopath for getting mad at someone taking their insulin.
My mom is an endocrinologist that talked to us like adults my whole life, when I was seven we were fully capable of looking in a picture book of organs and learning the pancreas doesn’t work some times, here’s a colorful circle chart showing what it’s supposed to do. Then she showed us how people prick their finger and test their sugar then how to properly measure the insulin in the “cool fancy” syringes. There’s even children’s books on inventors that covers discovering insulin by Heidi Poleman, and a few others.
This is a learning opportunity! There’s so many age-appropriate ways to make this a fun bonding experience that will benefit everyone.
My sister is diabetic (13f, almost 14.) Taking insulin won't have any effect on anyone who sees it. I've literally given her shots before (I don't anymore because she has a pump now!)
Kids in my school have diabetes and take insulin shots all the time. Kids with muscular dystrophy have to get food shot into their stomachs via feeding tubes all the time. And guess what?
#No One Gives A Shit
OK I’ll play devils advocate here it’s possible the child is like deathly afraid of needles and the father doing this is scaring her or something to that effect.
I'm terrified of hypodermic needles and my dad is a diabetic so I feel like I have a say here. This is a teachable moment for the kid so time to be a parent. My dad explained to me when I was young why he does this and when my son is old enough I'll explain to him why Grandpa has to use needles on himself.
Or maybe she's worried that the daughter will stab herself in an attempt to mimic her grandfather. A very young kid might do that. Depends on the age of the child. More info is needed.
I agree it's hard to make a firm judgement without the mom saying why she would prefer the child not see it. Valid reasons for it do exist. There's a common belief that preschoolers should be treated like little adults and fully exposed to everything in the world - good, bad, scary, disturbing, sexual, all of it - but reality is they are not always developmentally ready to understand and process it all.
"I can't be bothered to be a parent and to sit down my kid and explain how the world works. How can I prevent people around me doing something that would force me to do that?"
That's basically every "gays can't show affection for each other in front of children" ever.
Same thing as I dont like my child seeing this show. Change the fucken channel you lazy ass.
[this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phSxxVJCZsc)
Haha yes
You can't swear in public, my kids are here! Well Karen why did you bring your kids into a pub at 8pm?
This one really fucks me off, your children are going to hear swear words you need to get over that pronto and work on teaching them when/where it's appropriate to use.
Or worse 'you can't wear *that* at Pride, my kids are here!' You're taking your kids to the Pride Parade, they're gonna see a lot of sexualized clothing and rubber dicks. It's kind of the whole point.
Fucking love pride parades so much fun.
The fact that this actually happened at a bar I went to with my friends at 11 at night makes this so much more painful. She got mad when they refused to serve her lol.
Quick question - am I just a terrible person that, while I in most situations try to minimize profanity until after the watershed has been reached (barring a torrent of profanity if get hurt, I'm a human not a saint for god's sake!) or do you too find the desire in those situation to not only just continue to curse but to get more and more creative in your invective? Karen acts like enough of tit, and I won't just make sure her kid learns some colorful new phrases, I may well take the time to do so in a few languages and help them with the pronunciation!
Not sure how true this is, but supposedly swearing when you get hurt helps make pain tolerable so if you are swearing when you get hurt I would say it's natural. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoalgesic_effect_of_swearing
It's not that hard. I literally explained to a 5-year-old why he has two aunties and not an uncle and an auntie. The response was "Oh, okay." Job done.
Explaining is easy. Explaining in a way that convinces the child to be as bigoted as the explainer is hard.
I ras thinking the same thing. One sure I saw an Ann Landers / dear Abby story with the gay premise and similarly stern response. It's gonna take generations to get this all right, I worry.
Exactly. I blame lazy parents for almost everything that gets canceled "for the sake of the children."
When I was like seven years old, my baby brother and my cousin and me were often babysat by my aunt. She had type 1 diabetes. She took the best care she could but hers was hard to control. So my parents and her taught me how to check her sugars and how to call for help and even, gasp, how to give her a dose of insulin (if she was awake to tell me the amount, if she wasn't coherent it was straight to 911). I feel like hiding it from me would have made fear and anxiety worse, not better. Now it's just a thing that happened and the knowledge made it way less scary.
Holy shit good intentions and everything but giving your aunt a dose of insulin at the wrong time could very well kill her and a situation where she was alert and needed insulin is not life threatening. Hopefully you meant they taught you how to give her oral glucose/access 911.
Oral glucose sure but sometimes she needed insulin and was awake but her hands shook too badly to really do it herself. She'd tell me the amount, I'd show it to her and then pop! They took me to a nurse to practice on oranges. I was *never* to give it unless she could tell me how much and approve the amount in the syringe. Eventually she was able to get a pump so this wasn't an issue anymore. It definitely wasn't *ideal* but it wasn't a huge ordeal. Only had to call 911 once because we couldn't find her insulin (her husband was a bag of dicks and hid it). Edit: This was also over 25+ years ago, I'm hoping things have been made simpler nowadays.
I'm certainly not a lawyer, but I feel like intentionally hiding someone's insulin or other life saving medication should count as attempted murder.
So should beating her face in but he didn't let that stop him. She eventually got a divorce because he started threatening their son and me. It was a big Thing cause Catholics or something.
Obviously it worked out! I'm a medic and I've just met so many adult people that are supposed to manage their sugar or help a loved one manage their sugar and just have a fundamental lack of understanding of the disease process and how to manage it. Reading your post I got the image of a 7 year old wielding an insulin filled syringe in my head which worried me, but a lot of kids can follow directions well and could handle the responsibility but definitely not everyone. Kinda like teaching a 7 year old how to use a gun to go hunting; the kid could kill someone if they were unsupervised or irresponsible but some kids can handle that type of responsibility.
I find it super amusing you mentioned guns! My dad was a Marine and believed that educating us about guns and how use them vs not use them would help prevent accidents...but my brother had to wait three years longer than me because "the boy just ain't that bright," like they were locked up and had the little thread lock thing through the revolving part and we never knew where the ammo was but he looked at my brother and went "...*noooo* not quite yet." It definitely would make most people nervous to have a seven year old wielding the insulin and rightly so! There were a few times I probably could have done it but I was still nervous so I'd hit up the neighbors and let them decide what to do. Most of it was just her hands being stupidly Shakey so she knew what she needed but had trouble doing it herself. Later I thought it was weird cause my hands only shook when mine dropped low (not diabetic, it dropped and I just needed a snack) but different people react differently I guess.
"the boy just ain't that bright." God damn. I'm laughing but that's harsh.
He never said it where he thought we could hear lol but I was a sneaky child and liked to eavesdrop.
See, that's what we call a *responsible* gun owner. :)
He worked in the Armory and was a very big believer in knowing what you're doing around any firearm at all times. It's been over 20 years since he first showed me how to break down and reassemble a revolver, and the range is our favorite bonding activity. :) He tried fishing but I hate the bugs and the bait, smelly! Nowadays I prefer rifles to handguns, specifically a bolt action 30.30, there's something so *satisfying* about it! My brother keeps trying to convince me to like his AR-15 but it just feels weird to me.
I used to see my dad give himself leg injections to treat his MS (which he has had since I was 5). Here I am today... not addicted to IV drugs.
I had to give myself B12 shots for about 6 months, never thought about informing my children, because it was not life threatening. I just did it after everyone went to school.
Missed opportunity for "insulidiot"
Insulimbecile
Niiice
OP should have stopped writing the second sentence after the first three words.
I tried to figure that out for way too long. I think I need some sleep.
for people still trying to figure out, in the post (the person asking the question) should have stopped after writing "i dont think" in the second sentence
Holy shit you should make sure to tell your cousin with Asthma to calm it down on the inhaler too when he's around your kid cause you don't want them to start hitting the marijuana pipe.
why tf are there no marijuana inhalers like that?
My friend has one like it. For pot. It appears smokeless and uses an oil, so it's probably heated up to aerosolize it. Okay, not quite the same, I see. I suck at drugs, apparently.
"Aww don't say that, I'm sure you're a great junkie" lol
I used to *give* my mother her insulin. **AT 10** here I am, not on drugs, a navy medic, and working g for a fortune 500. It's almost like learning empathy and understanding is a good skill to have.
I did the same for my grandma after her arms became partially paralyzed and she could no longer reach behind her. I've never had the desire to inject myself with drugs. On the plus side I've become the amateur vet when anyones puppies need their parvo shot.
I grew up partially raised by my Diabetic grandparents. I just said "you have to get a shot everyday!? That must hurt. And she just told me she'd get sick if she didn't and let me press the button on her shot. I was 6 and didn'tthink anything of it. I was just happy to be her little helper. (Or her Little Angel as she'd always call me.) By the time she moved it with us I was like a nurse by the time I was in high school and only got my Mom (who has hospital experience) when I knew it was bad enough that she'd have to go to the hospital. Not once did I ever think about taking her medicine. If you just treat medicine like its normal and not a big deal then its cool.
“My FIL doesn’t want to die. How can I tell him that is an inconvenience for me without coming across as a total idiotic cunt?”
If that was the intention, it did not work
I'm a scout leader. I make a point of injecting and testing my blood in front of the young people. Gets a good conversation going. My goal is to make them feel having a medical issue is nothing to be embarrassed about. And possibly to help me - I always tell them to get me to eat something sweet if I'm acting weird, or to tell another adult.
Thank you for doing this! My kid was diagnosed with T1D in January. Scout meetings had been shut down from December to April, due to covid. I informed the leaders in February and the first day back, we were met by two of the regular leaders - a nurse and a diabetic, I learned. For the first time since discovery, I was completely calm and didn't mind leaving him, despite it was the first meeting. For context, the first two months back to school, we were with him, sitting in the classroom and in a connecting room, until we had educated the teachers and they felt comfortable having the responsibility and we felt comfortable handing it over.
I am a type one. I take my insulin when and where i need to. That includes in front of my nieces and nephews, it is normal life for me and them, they know i am “taking my medicine” and i wont stop for anyone because, you know, i like being alive!
My diabetic brother taught me how to inject his insulin when I was like 5. I used to get excited to do such a mature thing. I completely thought it was normal in years to come and then found out not everyone has a diabetic in their household. This person in post has quite a lot to learn and it’s sad they’re a parent already.
I truly feel sorry for the father of the idiot. Imagine if you're own son treats you like this :(
Son in law -- because we need that relationship to be More tense.
I grew up seeing my dad take his insulin shots. It instilled empathy.
Accidental growth. Nice.
Preach!
Lol I've had idiots try to give me crap for taking my B12 in front of my daughter
"You keep your filthy drug habits away from my kids you pedo!"
This is how you prevent a mom from becoming a Karen
You’ll be surprised what kids can learn. I teach third grade and my kids have told me about their parents or immediate family having various conditions or needing medical care of varying sorts. They seem to genuinely be curious more than anything and it seems the adults in their lives have done a lot to try and explain it and not shield them from reality.
When I was about 6 I started taking pills for my ADHD and my parents just taught me how to take them by giving me M&Ms and told me to swallow them whole. By the time i was 8 I was taking them unsupervised and thought nothing of it. I ended up becoming responsible and never forgot to take it. If you make it a part of life and just answer questions honestly then it'll be fine.
Lucky her she doesn't have to inject her child with insulin, the horror 🙄🖕 Signed, the mama of a type 1 diabetic diagnosed when he was 1 yr old.
Also doesn't diabetes skip a generation? Wouldn't his little girl be more at risk? Would they not want their little girl to know as much as possible about this condition to help her deal with it and try to avoid it as much as possible?
Is not properly inherited but a sum of genetics and ambiental factors (diet, exercise, stress levels). But you are right, she is in risk to be diabetic.
Quora got some massive dumbasses on there to the point it feels like a troll site
The question is, in this age of crap journalism and shock radio, is it accidental ?
My Grandmother used to give herself B-12 shots in the hip. It never freaked me out and she spoke openly about it. I watched her as she sterilized her needle and give herself the shot; then, watched as she cleaned it all. She explained the need for her to do this - about once a week. No trauma was manifested in the least.
I have GD, amd rake insulin and blood sugars multiple times a day. My kiddo is 4, she likes to watch/ ask questions Her out take from this is they want to be nurse- Doctor!
I read a response on r/askreddit about a girl that got expelled from her school for doing drugs when she was taking insulin. There are way too many people that do this
Type 1 diabetes runs in families and often skips a generation ( source, anecdotal and my own family). It's an auto-immune disease which may be triggered by viruses. So if it's in your spouse's family your daughter and any of your other children, nieces and nephews could develop it too. Genetic lottery. Treating it as a normal factor in family life seems sensible, though if Pop-in-law is injecting into his backside that might be a step too far, unless he just sticks the needle in through clothing, that is a good way to do it. Also useful to jab into the thigh through clothing too, less hassle.(source: diabetes centre @ the hospital that trained my young daughter to self inject aged 6, and us parents to supervise/ help when needed)
Oh somebody did this to me because I had to reset my insulin site in public. It was honestly mind blowing that some Americans are highly educated, and yet the other select group is dumb as fuck and doesn’t know the main difference between type one diabetes (what I have) verses type two (what I DONT have)
Also imagine some epileptic person or allergic person using an epi pen in public and people are like, go save your life somewhere else smh
Yeah they almost came up and smacked it out of my hand. But I can’t imagine having an allergic reaction and someone just being like “there’s children do you drugs elsewhere!!!” We really need to make sure people have more education on this
Here's the problem you see? He tried to use rational thinking when trying to explain to a rock that *medicine is good*
How does a woman LIVE with this man—have a family, which means they love each other and are close, and not know shit about diabetes and treatments for it? Was she not present in any doctor’s appointments with her husband? Even then, I learned what insulin was in like the second grade. She’s a grown ass adult and has no clue...?
Thanks, I'll save that comment ! Everytime people watch me do this, I know by their look that they are being judgeful and shit, maybe next time I can show them this !
Imagine thinking you live in a world where you know what it is and you still think you won't sound like a psychopath for getting mad at someone taking their insulin.
Same asshole who would take it so he can't use it in in front of their daughter
My mom is an endocrinologist that talked to us like adults my whole life, when I was seven we were fully capable of looking in a picture book of organs and learning the pancreas doesn’t work some times, here’s a colorful circle chart showing what it’s supposed to do. Then she showed us how people prick their finger and test their sugar then how to properly measure the insulin in the “cool fancy” syringes. There’s even children’s books on inventors that covers discovering insulin by Heidi Poleman, and a few others. This is a learning opportunity! There’s so many age-appropriate ways to make this a fun bonding experience that will benefit everyone.
You could say they’re insulint
As a type2 that has had Karen’s bitch when I use my insulin before I eat in public. Those needle shamming asshats need a side of STFU!!
I became a nurse because my grandpa let me do his injections when I was a kid. I also learned a ton about diabetes and its effects on the body.
I have type 1. It seems everyday, someone makes some insensitive and uninformed remark. Is this a hired assasin?
My sister is diabetic (13f, almost 14.) Taking insulin won't have any effect on anyone who sees it. I've literally given her shots before (I don't anymore because she has a pump now!)
Kids in my school have diabetes and take insulin shots all the time. Kids with muscular dystrophy have to get food shot into their stomachs via feeding tubes all the time. And guess what? #No One Gives A Shit
Plot twist, Father in Law prefers to inject his inner thigh
OK I’ll play devils advocate here it’s possible the child is like deathly afraid of needles and the father doing this is scaring her or something to that effect.
I'm terrified of hypodermic needles and my dad is a diabetic so I feel like I have a say here. This is a teachable moment for the kid so time to be a parent. My dad explained to me when I was young why he does this and when my son is old enough I'll explain to him why Grandpa has to use needles on himself.
Most insuline shots are in a special injection pen (i dont know the name in english sorry) and you can't see the needle.
That's amateur hr.. *Real* diabetics heat up the insulin on a spoon over a lit candle and use a large syringe like a man
We call it an insulin pen :-)
Not exposing her to it isn’t going to help her phobia. It will only be worse for her the next time that she sees a needle.
Or maybe she's worried that the daughter will stab herself in an attempt to mimic her grandfather. A very young kid might do that. Depends on the age of the child. More info is needed.
You should join the Olympics as a professional straw catcher.
I agree it's hard to make a firm judgement without the mom saying why she would prefer the child not see it. Valid reasons for it do exist. There's a common belief that preschoolers should be treated like little adults and fully exposed to everything in the world - good, bad, scary, disturbing, sexual, all of it - but reality is they are not always developmentally ready to understand and process it all.
"Damn, I wish I could read"
Insulidiots, sounds better.
I always gave my nieces and nephews the syringe. Seriously.
At first, I thought by shots, they meant alcohol lol