My Single Mom Life

Mindy and I took Sebastian to his appointment with the neuro for his migraines this afternoon.
He and I answered the doc's questions, and it was decided to remove him from one of the medicines, and increase the dosage on the other because it works better.
He won't be taking the Topamax any longer, but will increase the Propranolol to 3 times per day, with a 2 pill dose at night.
They seem to prevent the migraines from coming on better than the Topamax does, but if he still does get a migraine, to treat it with Tylenol or whichever OTC pain med works best for him.
The doc said that because he once again mentioned Excedrin Migraine, but it didn't work at all for Sebastian, so he told us to use what works best.

Before we even went in to see the doc, Sebastian was clutching his head, he usually gets migraines in the mid-afternoon or really early morning, so seeing as it was after 2pm, it was about right for one to come on.
The noise in the doc's waiting room didn't help matters.

I've had small kids, boys, I know how loud they can be when they play, but I don't know what has happened with this generation of mothers.
There were 3 young boys there, between ages 5-7, and all of them were running around, yelling, screaming, and making a total mess with the toys in the waiting area.
When I opened the door to enter, I had to step over toys that were right in front of the door with no one playing with them.
The mothers all just looked at me like it's perfectly ok to make other people step over your child's toy messes in front of a door at a doctor's office.
They had toys everywhere, yet they were only playing with a few of them.
Blocks here and there, trucks over there, more blocks over that way, just all over the place.
And they kept running around, jumping up and down, several times I had to pull my feet back because of their running around, I was afraid one of them was going to run across my foot, trip on it and land on it, or run by and kick me.

When it came time for them to leave, it was not the kids who picked up the toys, oh no, the mothers did.
All the mothers did while their children ran around making noises and messes, was sit there and gab with each other, they paid absolutely no attention to their kids at all.
They also gave their kids stickers and lollipops for "being good".

Excuse me?
That's being good?
Running around a doctor's office yelling and screaming, making messes with toys everywhere, not cleaning them up when finished, is considered being good?!
Sorry, but even at age 3, both of my sons picked up their toys when finished playing with them, and when in a public place like a doctor's office, they were only allowed to play with one toy at a time, when finished with it, put it away, and then they could play with something else.
They also knew not to run around, yell and scream.
They knew that when we were in public, they had to be on their best behavior, use manners, clean up their toys, and use indoor voices.

We were only in there about 5 minutes, before Sebastian had to leave and go wait in the hallway where it was quieter, and when it was his turn, I called him to come in.
One mother even totally lost control of her kid while we were in with the doc, and the kid came running down that hallway, yelling and screaming as he went.
What is wrong with today's mothers?
Don't they know that they have to teach their kids to behave when in public?
If they want their kids to act like that at home, fine, but when in public, your kid needs to be on their best behavior, indoor voices, no running, no making a mess, and teach them to clean it up.
This isn't your living room, it's a doctor's office.
Teach them to behave when in public, it's not ok to let your child run around in a waiting room, there are other people there besides you and your kid.