Threatened with a rectal temperature taking

When I was around seven, my mother took my first oral temperature, saying she thought I was old enough to follow instructions and be treated like a "big boy". I kept the thermometer in place for about 2 minutes and then must have moved it or made a "clinking " noise with my teeth while it was in my mouth.

Anyway, my mother stopped looking at her watch and told me matter- of -fact that "There is another way we can do this as you well remember," and my sister was told once that if she did not keep her mouth closed and breathe through her nose that my mother "would use her other end" to take the temperature.

Members do you recall such thinly veiled threats for the temperature to be taken rectally.?

There were a few times as an older child I tried to refuse an oral temperature, but obviously complied after a reminder that my mom would "take it in my bottom."

Yes, when I had a fever at the age of 11, my mom was using the mercury thermometer for oral temperatures and I was trying to hold it in my mouth and my mom was wanting to help and I would not let her and she told me if I did not do it right that she was going to take it rectally and I told her that rectal temperatures are for little ones not big kids like me. Don't ever ever theaten me again.

That happened to me once. My mom told that if I did not hold the thermometer right under my tongue, she was going to take it rectally but, I threatened to break the thermometer in half if she tried it. I would not have cared if I got busted or not.

I only really remember being threatened with it once, and it was my ex-husband that did it. I was sick and my nose was stopped up. Knowing me, I was probably coughing up a lung too. He had our digital thermometer in my mouth and I needed to breath. I opened my mouth a little bit, sucked in a breath of air and got yelled at for it. Never, had I gotten yelled at for breathing around a thermometer in my life! He was mad (part of why we are not still together) and yelled at me. He said if I did it again, he would take it rectally on me! I was so embarrassed at the thought because we were still newlyweds. I always wondered if he would have done it and what would have happened after that.

I never got threatened, if I had I probably would have done it on purpose just to get the rectal temp. But I did play up my nasal congestion in order to get a rectal reading instead of an oral. I really enjoyed rectal temps, why else would I be here, and did try to make it more likely that my mom would chose to take one. This worked on and off all through my childhood and teenage years.

Never... but always dreamed of it 😉

I do remember my mom reprimanding me and reminding me to keep the thermometer under my tongue. I wonder if she considered using the rectal thermometer when that happened.. if she threatened it I would have shaped up immediately!

@Elle wrote:

... if she threatened it I would have shaped up immediately!

Personally, I would have used that as an occasion to keep acting up! 😊