Jill Smokler, AKA Scary Mommy
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Getting Lily to take medicine is an absolute nightmare. I’ve tried mixing it with chocolate syrup, paying the extra five bucks to get it flavored, crushing it into cookies, slipping it to her while she sleeps… nothing works, at least not easily. She literally needs to be pinned down to the ground and force fed, tears streaming and screaming all the while. Her white Shabby Chic bedding is tie-dyed with a rainbow of medicines, ranging from Pepto-Bismol pink to royal blue to deep purple, all the result of nighttime battles that she won. It’s terrible and my heart sinks at the first sign of an impending infection.
Ben developed a bad cough today. When we got home, Lily asked me if I should give him some medicine. I agreed and instantly she began taunting him; “Be-e-en, come get your medicine, little baby,” she sang. I could see the wheels turning in her head— here was the payback for that Lego tower he knocked over last week. Retribution for the unprovoked pinch and kick in the car. For the zebra he got at the party last week that she couldn’t go to. For the book that he got to pick out the night before… Ben was going to get it and she was going to love every last minute. Oh, the joys of being an older sister.
I called him over. Lily watched, eyes gleaming with excitement. Ben simply opened his mouth and swallowed the red syrup, proclaiming “yummy.” Shocked silence ensued from the peanut gallery. Suddenly, Lily let out a loud cough. “I think I need some too,” she whined. “Not fair.”
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Oh, that is just TOO funny! So it turns out the little brother has more clout than cookies, chocolate syrup and special flavoring. Score one for the younger sib!!! (Yes, I am one of those!)
That’s so funny…Olivia HATES to take medicine, too! It isn’t until now that she tolerates the chewable Tylenol tablets. She used to puke up everything! I hated having to give her medicine…
Oh yeah I have been there!!
My second son is a Lily. He burned his hands on the oven door when he was 3 and at the ER the nurse wanted to give him Tylenol. I warned her of his spitting it back up. She smuggly told me she knew how to do it. Oh go girl, she put it in his mouth, looked at me turned back to him and he spit it all in her face, gotcha smug little twat!!
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LOL!! Of course. One thing I found that actually helps a little is measuring it out and putting it in a shot glass..Who knows why but all six of mine like it!
THAT is RICH!! What a stinker!!
Gotta love it.
Ok, maybe not so much?
Hee hee hee SO funny!
How funny! We’ve gone back and forth on the medicine is bad-medicine is good roller coaster. We’re on an upswing right now and it sure is easier!
Ha! What a little boogie. Nice move Ben.
Can you get Ben on video taking his medicine happily and email it to all of us. Just to show our kids that it can actually be done? That would be great, thanks.
Whoo hoo… go Ben! I love it! And it sounds like something that would go on at my house, too!
Boys are better than girls.
Younger brothers are smart!!!!
They get back at older sisters…they really do!
Score 1 for Ben! Too funny!
hahaha!! That’s great!! Thankfully I haven’t had any trouble getting either of my kids to take medicine.
I have to fight with Claire too. It is such a battle.
And what a little stinker!
hahah that is too cute. it always seems to be a competition with siblings. it was in my household! :)
well, he showed her now didn’t he!!!!!
That is CLASSIC. And I can feel your anxiety about any signs of possible illness lurking around the corner…I hear you loud and clear! The only way my 6 year old takes even tylenol is still with infant drops…just add a couple extra doses and wha-la. Lord help me.
With both of my bio-kids, I have to SIT on them to get the meds down the gullets. My mom had to do it with me … payback is truly a bitch.
Too funny! Thank goodness I have never had that problem.
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Oh man, what a little stinker… LOL. Girls! I have to sit on top of mine and hold their noses. You are much kinder.
I feel as if I’m still having that exact same scene, repeated with different nouns, over and over with my grown siblings…
That is funny, and the picture is hilarious! I could handle the pink stuff, but getting eye drops in my kids when they had pinkeye was a nightmare!!
Ah ha! If you only known you could have been drugging her brother all along!
I love it.
Wee One likes his medicine too much. “More medicine mommy?” Looks like we have another drug dealer in the family. LOL
Ok Ben is one smart cookie! Ha ha ha. I wonder where he gets that from….hmmmm?
Sigh…I know…been giving stinkin’ antibiotics for 5 days. Five more days of begging, pleading, bribing, strong-arming, sitting-on….We should work on inventing some simple medicine dispenser so we can quit our jobs and blog all day.
oh the simply joys of childhood! With gratitude, Laurie B.
I remember having to hold one of my kids down every time. It was traumatic. The things we do as parents.
ADorable picture. Your kids are cute.
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Oh yeah, I have a medicine taker and one that freaks. I get the same reaction.
TOO hilarious!! That rings a bell…My oldest was just like that. Now at this second she is visiting for the holidays and is scavaging the cabinets LOOKING for cold medicine….
Your kids are a constant source of inspiration, aren’t they?
That is SO crazy! Kaishon used to HATE medicine too. I used to pray so hard before cold and flu season that God would spare him just because I didn’t want to have to shove medicine down his throat. Maybe she will do better now that she saw how it can be done : ).
I wish that worked in my house. My ten year old son cannot take anything liquid without gagging and nearly, if not actually, throwing up. My 2 year old daughter takes everything like a champ and my son doesn’t even care about the competition. :)
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OMG! Sounds like my house a few years back. My daughter was a Lily. My kids are ADD and ADHD, diagnosed and prescribed pills! OMG I knew I was in trouble because the older child HATES any kind of medicine! I’d never tried pills with them, anyway, too long of a story to go into detail, but the end result was her laying flat on her back, my plugging her nose and her needing to be able to breath, it took about 20 minutes and lots of saliva, but she finally did it. I thought I’d rather shoot myself in the foot that go through everyday! But now she and her younger brother do just fine with thier pills. Liquid cold medicine is still another story though!
The best part of being a Pharmacist is knowing all the answers for medicine problems!