Top Ten Signs that your kids are dawktor's kids

[houseelf]

The last one was fun, here is a new one to play with.

Top Signs that your kid is a dawktor's kid. (For clarity, "dawktor" is a term used lovingly or pejoritavely employed for the good doctor in the family. La Hussey came up with it when some one once exclaimed to her "OHMYGODYOU'REMARRIEDTOADAWKTOR!!!)

Ahem....Without further ado..

Top Ten (or More) Signs that your child is a doctor's kid

If your child has ever informed someone that Daddy/Mommy lives at the hospital

If you have ever had a weekly family night in a hospital cafeteria or call room.

If you have ever given your child pharma swag as a Christmas or birthday gift

[Thirteen]

-You dress your children up as dawktors for Halloween
-Your child, when he or she needs to use the restroom, informs you that he or she needs to "urinate"
-Your child uses proper, scientific terminology for his or her body parts (extra points if they show proper genital identification in a recent drawing)

[rainbabies]

If your kid just got a lesson on what a bezoar is. If your kid knows that girls have a uterus/ovaries and boys have prostates. If your kid points to their ear and says "my tragus hurts" or if your kid tells their teacher their "filtrum got bumped" over the weekend.
And my fav...."my daddy uses sharp knives and cuts people open"

[PrincessFiona]

~you are pulled aside by the Montessori teacher after an incident where your daughter defended a child in trouble for saying a *bad* word by announcing loudly that "vagina is not a bad word. It is a body part" . (lifted own skirt to demonstrate) Good grief!

~your children want to be anything but a doctor. :/

[TigerLily]

If your 13 month old can identify her filtrum
If your baby points and says "daddy"? every time you drive by the hospital.

[Auspicious]

What's with the filtrums??? It was one of the first parts Cora was taught to identify, too!

[peggyfromwastate]

If your kids can explain what a resident is.

If your kids know what a fellowship is.

If your son told the preschool that his dad cuts off peoples heads at work. And his classmate, who's dad is also a doctor who works with your kids dad, says "hey MY dad cuts off peoples heads too!"

If your teen scoffs when friends wonder where her dad is-- does he hav another family or something? To which your teen says- no he's a Dawkter. He doesn't have time for another family...

When your kids talk the Dawkter thru the daily routine if mom happens to be out of the house. They tell the Dawkter how to start the bath, where the baby's pjs are, and then your toddler tells the Dawkter what stories to read for bed and how to properly put her to bed... And seriously 15 years of education does not make daily kid routines intuitive. My Dawkter needs instruction!!

[HouseofWool]

If your pre-schooler has a thorough understanding of all of the implications of the phrase "on-call".

[GrayMatterWife]

When DH's pager goes off and he dials his junior resident, and DS asks (loudly): "Operative or nonoperative?" because he knows the implications of each.

[MrsK]

Your kids have taken pictures like this. . .

Your kids have taken pictures like this. . .

Oh my goodness that is the cutest thing ever!!!! I want one! (babies on the mind much?)

[Thirteen]

Your husband reads the Mayo Clinic Book of Pregnancy to his child, in-utero.
("And now, we are going to talk about what you're doing in week 20...")

Instead of playing the old-fashioned cops & robbers, your toddlers play "sick germs & antibodies" and the youngest cries because she's the germ.

[houseelf]

-Each of your kids was born in a different city and state.

-Your children identify their birthorder with designations like "I was born during medical school, residency, or fellowship"

Instead of playing the old-fashioned cops & robbers, your toddlers play "sick germs & antibodies" and the youngest cries because she's the germ.

Ok, most of these are not helping my anxiety about parenting with a Dawktor, but this one is kind of great. I would love to see the antibodies attack the little germ.