Now she doesn’t even want to consider trying again.
My 16-year-old daughter, “Fran,” is enrolled in an internship program at her high school, where, one day a week, she leaves school at 1:30 p.m. and shadows her pediatrician. Fran was initially excited about the program because she wants to be a doctor. Now she wants to quit the internship. A couple of weeks ago, she ran into a friend, “Henrietta,” in the doctor’s office.
The next day at school, when she saw Henrietta, she said, “I’m not sure what’s going on, but I care about you. Let me know if you need anything.” When Henrietta told her mother this, the mom called the doctor’s office, furious. She accused Fran of snooping into Henrietta’s personal medical information and spreading gossip to other students. The doctor called our home and spoke harshly to Fran. Now Fran refuses to go back to that doctor’s office.
But Fran’s mistake was a serious one. She is 16, not 6: She bears some responsibility here. Even if no one prepared her for the situation in which she found herself, she might have stopped to think, relying on common sense—and empathy—to consider that if her friend wanted her to know what was going on, she would have told her. Her approaching Henrietta in this way was immature and insensitive. And then there is Henrietta’s mother.
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