Mental note 1

Just wanted to make a mental note to remind ourselves not to dismiss important remarks made by Natalie and displace it with our own understanding of what should have been the case or our assumption of her testing our limits. Instead we should investigate her claims physically and probe further and not trivialize it.

Simple example-
She told us she felt cold. We dismissed it as the Aircon is turned on and therefore it's cold. So we asked if she wants it off. She immediately said no and dropped the complaint of coldness as she didnt want to sleep without it. Later did we realize that she was developing a fever and therefore the feeling of coldness. To think that we didn't even check her temperature and thought she was just making an observation of her environment? Sigh, poor little girl developed fever over the course of 2 days but managed to fight off the infection caused by the flu bug.

Now it's just flu, cant imagine if it's some other issues that may lead to severe consequences. I must say we do have a tendency to make predisposed assumptions given our past experience and understanding of our children, it's therefore important to be reminded of this minor incident just in case!










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