• glorkon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    My wife and I have decided that we don’t want any kids. So if someone wants them, we can drop them off tomorrow.

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    I hate that I read this like the guy in the pic… I have a toddler and should know better haha

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    Those are actually completely different developmentally. There’s a reason they often count those first few years in months. There’s a buuunch of milestones the kid is supposed to be hitting and if they’re not but they’re intervened with quickly there’s often few overall deficits in the end. We had to learn the Denver 2 test in school and do a test on a friend or family members kid.

    It was a kid from church and the parents were super proud that the kid had never been sick due to avoiding daycare, and the kid was fine and even ahead in most skills, except language and a few of the social skills. You could see dad’s brain cogs start turning while he watched that. Idk what they wound up doing but I know some families do send the kid to daycare like once a week just to make sure their language and social skills are still hitting milestones.

    For instance if they’re not talking it might be autism or deafness and if they get the right supports quickly they can start learning to sign instead and/or the caregivers can get educated better on the kids needs, instead of them just never learning to communicate well and having trouble advocating for themselves later in life. If they’re having trouble walking or starting to feed themselves they can get treated for a musculoskeletal problem or get physical or occupational therapy to make sure their motor skills develop properly.

    I’m child free and wouldn’t touch pediatrics as a specialty with a ten foot pole but even I know that.