The incident that convinced me to start this blog occurred a couple weeks ago. My seven year old daughter caught strep throat and had a high fever. Our first medicinal struggle occurred over taking her Tylenol Jr. Meltaways. Her throat was sore and she did not want to suck on medicine. I told her that was fine; I could stick another pill in her butt crack. The Tylenol was in her mouth before I could blink an eye.
Once she got the strep throat diagnosis, I hit another hurdle with the penicillin. She was supposed to take a teaspoon full, but it tasted so "yucky" that she threw up half of it (literally). After I gave her some water to wash away the bad taste, she told me it tasted too "disgusting" and there was no way it would make her better. My response: the medicine is supposed to taste so bad that it scares away the bad germs. If you don't like it, they really won't like it. From that point on, not only did she take the medicine; she made sure to remind me when it was time for her to take it. A successful explanation in my book!
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