I defingered my child – I had no other choice!
by Maggie
(Tasmania, Australia)
I woke up the other morning and went into the kitchen to make breakfast. Not to my surprise, I found that my daughter had yet again gotten up before me, and left a trail of destruction. Her crayon set was scattered across the kitchen floor, and the walls were covered in a scribbly mess. I used the 'tough love' method, and yelled at her, giving her a bit of a smack around the head. "How am I supposed to get this mess off the wall?!" I yelled, but she just ran away, my discipline methods clearly failing.
Then I walked into the living room to watch the morning news. The curtains were lying on the floor and the room was covered in sofa cushions. I thought to myself, "How on Earth can one child be so destructive?". I knew she was nearby, so I yelled out that if she ever does this again she will regret it. I know she heard me because I heard her run again.
So despite my frustration, I put the curtains back on the curtain pole, and I put the sofa cushions back on the sofa.
By now I was fed up, and just wanted some breakfast. I walked towards the kitchen and heard a smashing noise. I ran to see what had happened, to find that my daughter had knocked over a glass bowl that had been sitting on the dining table. There was glass everywhere, and the bowl was beyond repair.
"That's it!" I said, I stormed out of the room and picked up the telephone. "Hi, can I please book my daughter in for a definger appointment?", "Great, thanks! Bye."
My daughter and I got dressed and got in the car, we headed down the road and arrived at our local doctors surgery. After about 15 minutes in the waiting room, a doctor came out and gestured us into his surgery room. After a quick glance at my daughter's fingers, the doctor said "shouldn't be a problem! Come and pick her up tomorrow morning."
I went home and tidied my house. Relieved that my daughter's destructive ways would be no more, and my house would finally look nice again!
The next morning I happily arrived to pick up my daughter. She was crying, but the doctor said that was just a reaction to the anesthetic. A few days later I took off her bandages, I could see nothing wrong with her fingers, and I never had any destruction problems again.
I would highly recommend defingering to anyone with a destructive child, because I know how limited alternate options are! And despite rumours, sometimes there are no other choices, and we have to do things to teach our children to not be so destructive!
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After reading that, would you ever be so cruel to definger your child for simply doing what a child does? No! So would you declaw your cat for simply doing what a cat does...?
Note: This is a fictional story.
Maggie