Kids are so whiny! They can't take a pill for anything! They can't get the liquid down! They can't hold the thermometer in their mouths! They just caaannnn'tttt! After me telling her that she needed to take her capsule with food, I hear awful whining! I look over into the big, wide green eyes of my little blond haired daughter, Chelsi, holding up a huge, green grape in one hand and her pill in the other whining, "I can't get this down with this!" Yes, she was trying to take them together. A concrete thinker like her dad I moan silently!
Fastforward a bunch of years to my grandson, Lake, whining, "I can't get this down!" In utter irritation, Luke standing there listening, watching his mouth gaping open in mid whine, reaches over and flicks the pill down his throat! We hear gulp, swallow and it's gone!
It sure beats the tackling, straddling, two-parent approach, one parent squeezing the jaws while the other parent pours! I bet in this day and age of parents letting their children decide what is best for themselves, there are a lot of kids who never get their medicine!
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