Another kid on oral temperature while you still were still on rectal?

Growning up, did you know about that kid at the time, who was younger than you (maybe much younger, like you were in your teens, while he/she was 6 or something) but switched to oral thermometer, meanwhile your mom stayed with the rectal one in your case? The other kid could be anyone: your sibling, classmate, cousin, neighbour, etc.

If the answer is yes, these are my questions: How did you learn about this, overheard his/her mom talking with your mom, or else?

How this information affected you? Were you more humiliated, or just accepted your mom's method with a shrug like it was no big deal?

Circa 1960s, mid 60s when house calls were still common it was not unusual for a teen to have had their temperature taken orally at home; but got it rectally during the doctor’s visit.

I saw my female friend, 15 years old getting a rectal temperature from her family doctor.

She usually got it by mouth.

No doubt while some pediatric and adolescent/ teens got rectal temps from parents and doctors, there were those who got it orally and may well have been younger.

There were both parents and physicians who preferred the oral temperature over rectal*

*Rectals may have been determined and done by those physicians if medically necessary in their opinion during a house call.

No, everyone was side by side with thermometers up the butt.

Not so much with the temperature taking part. At home mom made the switch around 6 or 7 unless we were vomiting then she got the rectal thermometer out. This was in the 70’s earlier 80’s when we had to go to the Doctor’s office you just pretty much know that more than likely the thermometer was going in your butt. especially sick visits. I do remember talking to one of my older cousins who was about 14 when I was about 11 or so. She had a virus . Nausea and vomiting. I asked her is she got a suppository she said pills. I was surprised didn’t really believe her. I had always got a suppository

This actually happened in the same exam room. My friend’s dad took me and my friend’s younger brother for back to school physical. I was 16, he was 14. He went to a different doctor, but that didn’t seem to matter as long as the physical form boxes were all checked. We both undressed to our underwear. After getting weighed and measured we sat on the exam table. We both got our blood pressure checked. The nurse got a thermometer from the glass jar, shook it down, and put it under my friend’s tongue. She then got the other thermometer that was in the other jar. After she shook it down she told me I would have to lie down and turn over. It was very embarrassing since he was 2 years younger. I guess it might have been because it was his doctor’s office, but I don’t know. So he’s sitting on the table with a thermometer in his mouth and I’m lying down with my underwear pulled down and a thermometer in my rectum.

I did not ask around how temperatures were taken!

All kids in my town used the same doctor and the parents went with how he said to do it and he suggested to age 13 . so no kids got oral early this was the 1960s 🌡️