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Getting Kids to Take Their Medicine
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The description below was contributed by: cheryl roberts, on Jan 15, 2002 03:42:50PM


Age group(s) for which this technique is helpful:
Preschool and Younger
Elementary School

Primarily used to improve behavior:
Both At Home and At School

Instructions for using this technique:
We go to the market and let her choose what she would like to put her medicine in (most of the time it's blue vanilla pudding..lol), whatever works!!

Other information parents should consider before using this technique:
Before her medicine, we had a lot of behavioral problems and it would sometimes take 2-3 hours to do homework!! Now we are sooo happy. Her medicine, which is a mood stablizer(Depakote), is like night and day behavior-wise!! It was a Godsend!!!

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