Soothing Sick Children - Continued

What are some of the other ways that you can pamper your child so that they won’t feel as sick as what they might be? Offer to make their own favorite foods, sometimes a good meal will make the day seem all that much better and when you know that your child is eating something nutritious their bodies are going to be able to fight off those yucky germs faster. Buy Popsicles or freeze pops when your child is sick. Although the freeze pops are really not going to do much for fighting off the germs, the cold makes their sore throat feel better, if this is one of their symptoms, and the freeze pop is going to keep them from dehydrating if they are having problems keeping liquids down. Keeping your children calm and happy is going to make the ordeal of being sick easier to handle.

Take off a day when you child is sick, really sick when you can. If you work outside the home and you still have to find a sitter for your child because your job is very demanding, make sure you are leaving your child with a sitter that is going to pamper your child so that they can relax, sleep and work on getting over their sickness or cold. When you take a day out of your schedule to spend with your sick child, they are going to remember that for years to come because it shows that you care and that they are loved, or at least they will feel more loved than if you sent them to the sitters. The small child’s mind is not really that complex, they want to be held, pampered and loved when they are sick and your soothing them will make their little cough, cold or aches seem to disappear much faster!