Nia has figured it out that she gets special attention when she's sick (which she has been a lot lately.) So I think she may be going through some withdrawal of being the center of the world. Therefore, she's been whining and carrying on and complaining about every little thing. For instance, last night as she was stuffing her face at dinner she was insisting she had a belly ache and wanted her temperature taken even though I could tell that she was fine just by feeling her.
Well, the newest thing is that every little teeny tiny scrape always "itches really really bad." Last night she was insisting that it was "interrupting her so much that she didn't think she could eat anymore." She begged me to put some medicine on her scrapes.
So I had a stroke of brilliance, knowing that we're dealing with a little hypochondria here and I put some hand cream on it and told her that she was definitely going to need some "placebo cream" for those. Throughout the night she would find other "injuries" that needed some medicine on them-- bruises, papercuts, scrapes... they all got placebo cream.
The funny thing is that I make her actually use the words, "placebo cream" since it apparently really helps. The great thing is that you can use anything you have handy and nearby-- hand lotion, diaper cream, antiobotic ointment... it's ALL placebo cream.
I have been daydreaming all day long about how funny it will be when she learns the meaning of the word, 'placebo.'
Is this wrong?
