Well a couple of years ago when Reed's acne got pretty bad, we took him to the dermatologist. She prescribed VERY expensive medication (I think it was like $600, of which we thankfully only paid the co-pay). But....he'd never taken pills before. It didn't go well. We tried all the suggestions for helping kids learn to swallow pills (starting with swallowing Tic Tacs, moving up to mini-M&Ms, then full size M&Ms), but it just wasn't happening. And since the medicine wasn't for anything that was truly serious, we just let it go.
We've been so very fortunate that we don't have kids who get sick all the time (knock on wood), so they haven't needed to take any pills. So while I'm guessing many other kids have that down, our kids do not.
Reed came down with a sinus infection over Christmas. The doctor kind of scoffed at the idea of giving him a liquid antibiotic, so we went with the pills. They're a little large. He's struggled with getting them down....there was ONE dose he managed to swallow and seemed to have a bit of an "a-ha" moment about it, but then back to the drawing board. Doing a lot of practicing, hoping to get there eventually. *Sigh*
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