Had a bit of a fight with my 3 year old tonight over medicine. She had one of her I'm over tired won't listen to reason tantrums that she has now and again. It was bed time and I had just tucked her in for the night and since she has had a cough from her cold hanging around we have been giving her some herbal cough&cold medicine to help her with her cough at night. But tonight was different...
"Mommy, Can I have some medicine?" she says as she tries her best to cough.
"No honey, you don't need it anymore" I respond.
"But I want medicine, pllllleeeease can I have some medicine?" she begs me.
"No, we don't take medicine unless we need it." I try and explain.
Yep, you read right, my 3 year old is pleading with me for medicine. Not only is she pleading but she is now in her bed crying and screeching about how unfair I am for not giving her medicine (I'm not going to her birfday party!). How did I get so lucky you ask, I have no freaking idea???
I hate taking medicine. My mother had to hold me down and fight to get me to take any medicine growing up. She still talks about the grief I gave her over it and I still cannot take medicine without gagging and plugging my nose. My father's worst threat he could scare me with was "I'll make you drink the white medicine". I still have the image of that huge white bottle on the top shelf of the linen closet.
Because of my childhood trauma involving medicine, my 6 year old has actually benefited, for whenever she has to take any medicine I allow her to chase it down with a spoonful of ice cream (thank you Mary Poppins). Now when she is coughing she also asks me for medicine, but again I discourage it when it's not really needed.
So as a result I have no walls, sheets and shirts covered in red goo as I fight to stuff a syringe into a child's mouth as they spit and thrash about. No I just have an discussion (er, okay,argument, I do have girls) about how we don't take medicine unless our bodies really need it.
...my mother shakes her head with jealous awe.....hehehe
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