For any parents faced with sick days, I figured I'd share my recent experience... For the first time, I was the one who stayed home for two days to care for Ava since she was running a fever.
In order to avoid a habit of "my throat hurts" to score another day off, I decided to add some structure to the healing, including medicine. We made the following schedule, and she actually got into tracking her progress hour by hour... If she protested the medicine, the TV went off, the lights went out, and it was hardcore bed healing. She took the medicine. And it looks like she's ready for school tomorrow.
(Next time, I'll add "Do Daddy's Taxes" to the list.)
9 AM
Vitamin C
2 Prunes
Glass of water
11AM
Vitamin C
Pineapple bowl
Spoon of medicine
Glass of Water
Math practice12:30 Lunch
Scrambled eggs
Toast
Glass of Water
1:30PM
Read outside in sunshine - Vitamin D
Complete 3 book reports for school
2 PM
Vitamin C
1 prune, 1 plum
Glass of water
4PM
Vitamin C
Snack - Sprouted Pumpkin Seeds
Glass of Water
Practice sight words6PM
Dinner
Glass of Water
7PM
20 minute hot bath
Spoonful of medicine
Vitamin C
1 Prune
1 comment:
I will have to file that method away for future need. Just to keep the boy from enjoying being home /too/ much.
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