When your own kids are sick...

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I think, as parents, we've all been duped with the fake illnesses. Once I caught on, I started employing a technique my parents used......if you're home sick, you're in bed. No tv. No video games. No magically recovering when your siblings come home from school. Sorry, but if you're sick, you're laying in bed being sick until the next day. Now if your child is really ill, it'll be pretty apparent and they'll just lay around and sleep anyway. For a child faking it, that's a torturously long day! I found it worked pretty well. Mine are teens now and learned a long, long time ago not to try to put one over on me And really, like you said, unless they're running a fever, have wicked diarrhea or are vomiting, they can probably take some advil and push through. After all, out in the real world, we have to carry on with our responsibilities, even when we don't feel 100% or would rather just take a personal day. That's life