You Know Your Child Is Sick When:

You know your toddler or young child is sick when they:

• ask to go to bed
• enjoy lying in bed for longer than a millisecond (try 15 minutes) even after they have woken up
• refuse to eat crackers
• say their spoon is too heavy and that you need to feed them
• happily drink and ask for water
• don't want to play
• ask to take a nap
• will sit on the couch and watch TV without the slightest interest in getting up or moving
• haven't disagreed/fought/stolen from/gotten mad at their younger sibling for longer than you remember



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You know your toddler or young child is getting better when they:

• say that they don't want to go to bed
• jump out of bed the moment they wake up and ask you to play
• eat a lot of crackers and then ask for more, five minutes before dinner
• have no problem with the weight of their spoon and ask for seconds
• ask for juice, milk or better yet, hot chocolate, saying they don't like water
• want to play every second of the day and want you to join them
• no longer ask, nor have any interest, in taking their (extra) nap
• may watch one TV show, but after awhile get antsy and at least have to multi-task TV with playing
• begin to notice their younger sibling's existence again and their ability to alienate them :)

Such was the case in my home last week.
Hope you're fighting all those germs and flus with success!

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