Raising Kids with Problems..

Raising children needs patience… atleast with naughty kids as of ours surely needs lots of patience… tough job but then everyone does it… yesterday had a patient in OPD… 9 yr boy with history of some neurological surgery done 4 yrs ago… that neurological surgery had left a permanent damage on his brain… he had become sort of an hyperactive child… wouldn’t sit in one place for one second… always doing some masti of sorts… tried to pull on some wires and machines of my instruments… tried taking some things and throwing here and there… just wouldn’t listen… after a couple of minutes even I got irritated by his behavior.. but his parents tried to be calm and apologetically tried to handle things… that’s when I realized how tough it would be for the kids parents to take care of the child… the patience required would have been amazing… on asking the father said that his mother had to resign from work as one of them had to stay back with him… no crèche would take such a child… the father did handle him well but somewhere I found a bit of irritation creeping on him too… for his sake they had given away the thought of having a second child, as they knew he would require their utmost attention for the rest of their lives… as they left I couldn’t help but pity on the condition this family found itself into… just wished that the parents don’t run out of patience anytime in future…