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In reply to the discussion: Adults that spoil kids aggravate me [View all]tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)I don't like to broadcast it for the obvious reasons and since I've had so much cognitive slippage thanks to 25 years of MS having its way with my brain, but I was a medical psychologist/neuropsychologist. I worked mostly with adults and, once settled in the profession, I didn't work with little kids (I knew a couple who were incredible with little kids), but I loved working with pre-teens & teens. I got them when they were in the hospital all banged up after doing some damn fool thing or being the innocent victim of something or, sadly, with serious and sometimes terminal illnesses. Fabulous age group! I had excellent developmental psych training, did work at a children's hospital for 3 years when I was in grad school and actually co-taught two parenting classes with a colleague -- the grad school picked the two of us out. When I told them I didn't have any kids it didn't seem to matter -- I knew my stuff, was very good at family therapy with kids of all ages and I worked with kids a lot at that point. It doesn't hurt that I had a very successful babysitting business going starting at age 13! I hated church -- I learned I could get out of it by being one of the volunteers who worked in the church nursery, taking the younger kids & babies while their parents were in church. And it was an awesome place to drum up clients for my private babysitting business!
Wow, Kennedy-Nixon debates.....not many here have that claim to fame!