If you are a doctor by profession, you might want your kid to follow your example in his career later on as an adult. If you have this thought, it will be good to start orienting your baby boy early what is it to be a doctor of medicine. Aside from the times when your kid visits you in your clinic, and asks so many questions about what you do if there are not many patients waiting for you, you can buy him complete learning educational toys of what the doctor uses in his profession.
It would be a delight to see your little kid moving around your house with his own stethoscope strung around his neck, complete with an all white clinical coat imagining himself as the doctor of the future to replace you in your clinic. As is the case with lawyers, engineers, teachers, and the other professionals who also have children wanting to have the same calling as their dads later, your kid now could be hooked early to becoming a doctor himself, after you are gone.
Your neighbors will not tire of you kid's constant "practice" of his future role as a doctor, inviting the kids next door to visit him in his "clinic" offering them free consultation and treatment. The neighbors have a hard time keeping their amusement to themselves as your kid doctor go through the motions of checking the kids in the neighborhood of their blood pressure with the toy BP instrument and pretending to hear chest sounds with his toy stethoscope.
Your wife acts as the nursing assistant for your little doctor, who is game enough to wear a nursing cap playing along with the little doctor’s fantasy. She of course has some difficulty too suppressing her laughter with the drama she plays almost everyday that the little doctor has patients in his "clinic".
There was the elderly neighbor who could not let the opportunity pass as he was doing his morning walk around the neighborhood by dropping by at the little doctor's clinic and played the role of a patient. Surprising, but your boy was not shy at all talking to the old gentleman, and went through all the motions of checking the old man's BP and his chest murmurs with his set of doctor's learning toys.
When the old man asked your kid what could be the reason why he hears sounds in his chest through the stethoscope the boy readily answered that perhaps the old man was eating too much. The old patient almost died trying to control his laughter at the little doctor's comment. Your wife had to peep into the clinic interrupting her cooking chore in the kitchen, so surprised to see your old next-door neighbor seated at the clinic with your son "treating" him with the mien and the dignity expected of a true professional physician. The wife has to bring out quickly a cup of coffee so amused at the exchange between your little doctor and his elderly patient.
That day was one of the most memorable days your aspiring kid doctor had in his little clinic. You and your wife could not stop laughing at the dinner table about the whole story, as the little doctor went to bed early, maybe tired of the full day he had at his clinic.
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