Parenting

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this week has been hard. mila has been sick since monday. yesterday we decided to bring her to the doctor. she gave us antibiotics. we don’t like antibiotics. turns out mila hates them. whoever designed this to be the way we should give drugs to our kids:

why? why not a gummy bear? i can see the trauma arising on mila as we force her to take this and it is suffocating

holy shit we sneaked it into her breakfast yogurt and it worked. 3/4 of it in and she hasn’t discovered that she is eating it

ingenuity > brute force

father, meditator and (freelance miniapp builder and consultant). this month working for $runner

Like pretty much everything else that you want them to do and they won't do, you've got to turn it into a game. 

We went through this with our kid. Wouldn't take anything. We've been through the hiding the medicine in various different foods, etec etc. 

The best thing was getting someone else to take a fake medicine at the sane time (in our case it was his sister with milk that essentially looked exactly the same as the real medicine) and her going first and clapping her after she's done it. 

Doing a reverse psychology game - it's really important that you don't take this, but I need you to look after it. You either hold it and turn your head away or give it to her to do it herself. Giving her the responsibility usually works too. Say something like I bet you don't know how to do it. And she'll want to prove she can. 

Bribing with sweets is another tactic. It's easier but worse for her and the other two work better. 

Good luck man. We went through years of this! You get there in the end, though.