Did your babysitter take your temperature rectally?

Sounds like a sexual assault charge and a sex offender registry nowadays.

Sounds like a sexual assault charge and a sex offender registry nowadays.

If not done by a professional nanny who was explicitly allowed by the parents to do so I'd say you are right.

@KC_Patient God, no, she was expressly authorised by my mother, and I don’t really recall sexual intents in those circumstances. These are serious claims,which shouldn’t be said so lightly if you dont know the situation.

@KC_Patient @achim There is a form of abuse called “pathological nursing”. It consists, for adult caregivers, in using intimate procedures that are unjustified by medical or hygienic means, or inappropriate for the age of the child (in the sense that the child would be able to apply the procedure alone; an example would be bathing a 13 year old that's perfectly able to wash himself or herself). The thing is, the caregiver will always have an excuse. “He was sick.” “I wanted to make sure he did not injure himself.” Go prove anything up to a criminal standard.

No, but i wish one or two of them did 😕

On the other side of the coin, some time back a member posted a story about a babysitter getting HER rectal temperature taken. Somewhat descpritive.

We did on a few occasions. The babysitter was an older, “Grandmotherly” neighbor who was given permission, by our mom, to take our temps rectally if we appeared, or were, sick.

If anything, we abused the babysitter by faking sick a few times just to get our temperatures taken with the good ol rectal thermometer.

Take that you uptight prudes…

I lived in and until I was 18, an apartment building and back in the day when RTs were common, though I never was seen by her, a young Mother who lived in the building was a registered nurse. Back then, if known she was a nurse , many a parent would reach out to her to “ see” Bobby or Susie or whoever the child was. I never was.

I was always curious if any of the kids who saw her had their rectal temperatures taken. None ever mentioned it and I never asked.

Not her, but visiting a friend one time. I started feeling out of sorts. My friend’s mother came in the room, put me on the bed, started to pull my pants down. I remember saying,I feel better, yanked my pants back up got off the bed and hurriedly left. I’m sure well intentioned as she was, I almost got a thermometer up my rear end.

This is circa late 50s, early 60s.

Yes babysitters took my temperature rectally.

As a kid, my Gram was my babysitter; if I was sick, Gram took my rectal temp, when mom was busy.

Several of my babysitters took my temperature rectally.

People who are replying with overtones of “sexual assault” and this other crap have swallowed political correctness hook, line and sinker.

It is silly to try and apply contemporary standards and agenda to things that happened years ago.

Mercury was a real danger to kids. And kids bit thermometers.

Also, in the zeal to make a quick change to electronic thermometers, kids DIED because serious fevers were missed. Illnesses such as Meningitis require very accurate temperature measurement and fast action. It can go from no symptoms to death inside of 24 hours.

Electronic thermometers DO NOT measure temperature. They use a device called a thermistor to measure resistance to voltage. A computer chip then GUESSES the temperature. We all know how wonky computers are. Electronic thermometers are just as unreliable no matter what the agendas claim.

A glass thermometer up those kid's butts might have saved them before they died.

In other words, namby pamby do gooders killed those kids in the name of self rightiousness. Squeemishness about sticking a thermometer in a kid's rectum. Thinking sexual assault instead of valid medical procedure.

Personally I think those kids mattered WAY more than some fools opinion that taking their temperature rectally is somehow sexual assault.

Our society has suffered greatly by the new paradigm of seeing potential sexual assault in every shadow and behind every tree. Like all agendas they conveniently ignore the damage done by their personal beliefs.

In my book that is nothing short of criminal to put agenda before a kid's life.

Yes he did a lot. Before she left to go to a concert in the city she told me and the babysitter that he was to take my rectal temperature once every half hour and to make a log which she would read when she got home. And if I were to protest to much that he was authoritized to give me a bare bottom spanking. He was a pretty cool guy and made taking my temperature in my tush a fun time. Being in my PJs it was easy to pull them down and then up. It started to get boring about the forth time around and I was getting very fussy. He told me to stop but I didn't. So he pulled me over his lap since my pants were down at my knees alreadyu. Held me tight and spanked my naughty bare bottom till it was bright red and I was sobbing promising not to give him attitude again.