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Circa 1996:

Me to daughter:  Hey, take this pink medicine.  It will help your cough and runny nose. 

Daughter to me:  Okay.

My grandson will not take his medicine.  Me: Okay, no TV.  Him: Okay, whatever. 

Son of a bitch!  I'm pretending this will translate into some sort of positive gumption when he's older, but goddamn.  And no, the kid won't eat anything I offer him, so mixing it into anything won't work either.

Kids chest sounds like a mixing truck.

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Either take away what he loves most unless he does it or reward him with something he loves if he does it. 

Also give it to him in a syringe and have him drink cold water after each couple milliliters. Just squirt it towards his cheek like a ml or so and have him drink right after. 

Tell him he can pinch his nose pretty tight as he is taking it and he will hardly taste a thing. 

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Cut the bottom out of a juice box but leave the straw inserted thru top as usual, however inside you hide a small med bottle.   Mix med with wtfever just don't let him hold it.  

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2 hours ago, UTGrad98 said:

Either take away what he loves most unless he does it or reward him with something he loves if he does it. 

Also give it to him in a syringe and have him drink cold water after each couple milliliters. Just squirt it towards his cheek like a ml or so and have him drink right after. 

Tell him he can pinch his nose pretty tight as he is taking it and he will hardly taste a thing. 

I kind of like the procedural aspect of this.  

Anyway I waited for his mom to leave the house and then I took a syringe and jammed 4 ml of ghost pepper down his throat (you'd think by the way he howled).  He didn't spit it back up but the tears spilled and all sorts of guck came out of his nose.  He was pissed.  After I reminded him that his mom was my daugter and I didn't like him making her sad and the doctor and all of us just wanted him to get better.  I asked him if he was going to take it himself tomorrow or if we wanted to "do this again" and he said that he could handle it.

I don't buy it.  

He didn't want to sing our usual "Folsom Prison Blues" with me tonight after his bedtime story, so there is a price to everything.

 

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10 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I kind of like the procedural aspect of this.  

Anyway I waited for his mom to leave the house and then I took a syringe and jammed 4 ml of ghost pepper down his throat (you'd think by the way he howled).  He didn't spit it back up but the tears spilled and all sorts of guck came out of his nose.  He was pissed.  After I reminded him that his mom was my daugter and I didn't like him making her sad and the doctor and all of us just wanted him to get better.  I asked him if he was going to take it himself tomorrow or if we wanted to "do this again" and he said that he could handle it.

I don't buy it.  

He didn't want to sing our usual "Folsom Prison Blues" with me tonight after his bedtime story, so there is a price to everything.

 

This is my solve. 

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8 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

I used to tell my daughter "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way." Generally when trying to do the bath thing. 

Until one time she just said, "Daddy, this time we're going to have to do it the hard way." 

The original FAFO…. If only because of the insatiable curiosity of the child.

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11 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I kind of like the procedural aspect of this.  

Anyway I waited for his mom to leave the house and then I took a syringe and jammed 4 ml of ghost pepper down his throat (you'd think by the way he howled).  He didn't spit it back up but the tears spilled and all sorts of guck came out of his nose.  He was pissed.  After I reminded him that his mom was my daugter and I didn't like him making her sad and the doctor and all of us just wanted him to get better.  I asked him if he was going to take it himself tomorrow or if we wanted to "do this again" and he said that he could handle it.

I don't buy it.  

He didn't want to sing our usual "Folsom Prison Blues" with me tonight after his bedtime story, so there is a price to everything.

 

Truth.  Did the oral  syringe thing with grandson and he was pissed, but took the medicine.  IDGAF how pissed they get if it's something for their own good.  I think his momma was a bit in shock, but damn, at a certain point it's not a fucking negotiation.

 

This is coming from a guy who regularly required 3 adults to hold him down at the doctor's office in order to take a shot as a kid.  and I still got to play trucks and excavators with him later in the day.  He was over it pretty damned quickly.

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Thanks for the moral support folks.  Part of the issue as a grandparent, which you younger guys will see before you know it, is that you look back in regret at the wrong moves you made as a parent, and you want to make sure you don't repeat them. Sure, some of the regrets are big ticket items, but the things that bother me the most are the little things -- I don't ever want to be the cause of raised voices or tears if I can help it.

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You pinch his nose shut, shoot the medicine down his throat with a syringe, and then clamp his mouth shut.  I now have to do that to my daughter’s chihuahua five times a day.

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