It's fine if he wants to muck about with his prescription, but DH tries to argue black is white when it comes to antibiotics for the children.
DS is having antibiotics and his infection seems to have improved. However there are four days left of the antibiotic, and everyone knows that you are supposed to complete the course even if everything looks fine. He knows this, sometimes he does this, but when he feels lazy and selfish he just does not want to comply.
Today the dose was missed before school (the antibiotic had disappeared and we couldn't find it, and we finally found it half an hour after DS had been taken to school). It was DH's turn to do the school run today, and I am due to do the school run this afternoon, it was only fair that seeing as he was dressed and already out there, he is the one to with back to school and administer the antibiotics.
He argued that there are only four days left and the infection has got much better, and he reckons missing our morning days would be fine. I've had this before with antibiotics with him, and it really just seems to be a blind spot. It drives me mad is because when I talk to him about it he knows all the right answers, but when it comes down to choosing his selfish nurse over the child's well-being, he is often the winner.
Unfortunately I am not always there to give every single day's dose, and need to rely on someone else to do that for me when I can't. I just can't seem to get it through to his head that antibiotic courses need to be completed. He would agree with it when there isn't any perceived cost on his part, and I honestly don't know how to manage it.
I'm expecting people to say LTB! However it is not like this over everything and it really doeS seem to be one of his blindspots.
Any ideas how I can best manage the situation, so that the antibiotic course is finished when I am not able to do it myself?