From the parenting isn’t easy files comes a story of a child who’s diabollicaly opposed to taking his various medicines.  The root goes back to a previous post which talks about why the medicine tastes so horrible and comes only in pill format, but I digress.  Like many things in parenting I’ve learned, the reason isn’t as important as the solution.

I think it was Mary Poppins or maybe Ms. Maria (either way it was some Julie Andrews character) that said, “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.”  That’s a load of crap.  Pureed fruit, yogurt, pudding, pizza sauce, crackers, bread, brownies and even ice cream hasn’t worked.  I’m doubting sugar will work.  I wish there was a chance to reason and remind my little anklebiter that the medicine will actually make him feel better. I’ll continue to resort to begging, offering larger quantities of ice cream and the hope that the drug companies will get their act togeter.  Until then, the battles continue.