A Mom like that needs to be told the obvious, a doctor can’t properly diagnose without examining inside the mouth.
When your daughter “has decided” to cooperate with thosr instructions, please make an appointment to bring her back.
Oh, and this time here will be counted as an Office Visit.
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Spock was very leftist, no religionist, and no friend of bible-based discipline of wilful children:
"Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell" (Proverbs 23:13-14).His appoach fits well with the educational philosophy of John Dewey (click here), to amplify it. Dewey was a Marxist opponent to training of maturing children in the climate of developing the child in personal behavioral accountability and to gain a foundation in the classics of human history, literature, the arts, religion, and critical thinking, the loss of which has left our public schools with teachers who themselves are deficient, and cannot prepare their students to enter the culture of a free society and self-disciplined provision for one's own needs, let alone wants.
And that is where we are now left at as a nation, originally meant for higher goals by the governmental system crafted by our Founders. Our social framework is in shambles, totally vulnerable to tyrants, whether "conservative" or "liberal," rejecting Heavenly guidance of our cultural mores, with physical and spiritual freedom almost lost. Spendthrifts, thinking someone else will pay the cost of self-serving behaviors.
We are in a thickly progressive miasma that is definitely Spockian and Dewey-eyed blindness, with no hope for the future implanted in our children, and adolescent suicide rapidly climbing. Enfeebled aimless drug-disabled homeless beggars litter our cities, making them useless for commerce. Soon we will become an anarchy, ungovernable by any kind of "Constitution," menacing robbers galore, if something isn't done soon.