To have put water in the syringe??

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Whining, moaning, Mardy 4yr DS has been going on for hours over the tiniest scratch on his foot. "It hurts" "it stings" "owwww" "I can't have a bath my foot hurts" .... Arghhhhh

DP then helpfully asks "do you want some medicine?"

I'm not giving medicine for a scratch so put water in a syringe and gave that.

DS none the wiser and he's stopped moaning!!

DP thinks I've conned DSant "that's tight!"

So YABU ...as DP says

Or YANBU ... there's a lot to be said for the placebo effect, DS has stopped moaning, no need for unnecessary medicine everyone's a winner!!

Also you need some special magic cream. A fingertip dab of Magic cream on the forehead , chest, knee, palm, cures anything from insomnia to cramp, scary dreams, football injuries and screaming abdabs. My magic cream lives in various secret locations around the house and smells quite like Nivea.

Your partner is an idiot and I suspect never has the child alone nor would know how to deal with a proper emergency.

Loving the fact someone thinks the OP injected her child with water!

Given my kids a spoon of cordial (calpol) many times back in the day and they went straight to sleep after, happy as Larry!!

2bazookas

mine smells like Olay

I would probably have just told him to go away and stop whinging.
Your dp is being unreasonable to actually offer medicine for something that doesn't need medicine.

We have magic cream (Lucas paw paw) and sometimes scratches just need resting with air kisses! (Just fresh air with a raised leg) 🙄 worked with all 4 of mine x

Hmmm I do think calling him an idiot is rather harsh and unnecessary, very limited information from the OP certainly not enough to ascertain that he wouldn’t cope in an emergency and is apparently an idiot.

@mouse70

Did I read correctly.You stuck a needle on a syringe of water in a child to pretend it was medicine. Great parenting I do not think!!!!

I think you might need some special medicine too mouse as op clearly never mentioned a needle. I'll go run the tap

@NoPainNoTartine @2bazookas mine bizarrely smells like aveeno, weird! 😂

I don’t think YABU at all

mouse70 it was an oral syringe not a subcutaneous, intravenous or intramuscular injection. We don't routinely get medication with needles in the UK.

When I was younger, we had "magic cream" for cases like these! It was Savlon.

"You’ve lied to him to shut him up" Oh, come off it! It's hardly unusual to lie to children to get them to stop endlessly asking for something.

OP, I don't think you were unreasonable, but maybe better not to start a habit of turning to medicine as a first port of call. Decorate a tube/bottle/tub of Savlon/Germolene/E45 and call it magic

Kisses and magic cream usually do it. Drops of Bach Rescue remedy got DS through school, though not sure it actually did anything.

Its like a magic plaster.

We had the "healing flannel"
Aka plain flannel kept in first aid kit, magic when wet, and only used in dire emergencies.
Worked a charm.
Eldest now 24, few weeks ago reminded me of it, I gently broke it to him that it was indeed...just a flannel 😂

DD2 used to have crying jags aged about 3 or 4. DH got the local pharmacy to print a label with her name and "The Crying Medicine" on it, and put it on a proper medicine bottle. He filled it with orange juice concentrate and we gave her 5ml spoonfuls whenever she started.

Worked like a charm!

I have a DNephew who as a little boy regularly was given a placebo when he had a 'heady ache', and a DNeice who was such a grumbly thing that her mum used to let her have twenty minutes a day to get all her health moans out. (Luckily not the same mother with both children!)
If it helps sooth a child and isn't happening too often, I don't see the problem - and of course, much better than resorting to real medication when it isn't needed.

Magic cream here. Depending on severity of the injury or “injury” it’s either blue cream (savlon) or mummy’s special white cream (cocoa butter).

Dh put some holy water on ds the other day because his shoulder hurt. My godmother gave us a bottle from israel when she went there. It had found its way into the bathroom.

Don't you just stick a plaster on it? I've found that kids seem to think that plasters have special properties that heal any injury. Mostly, it's just a way of acknowledging their pain.

I did think you meant you injected him with water at first lol, my brain is slow today. I think it's a good idea, rather than give him unnecessary medication. The placebo effect works well.

We had “magic spit” in our house 😂

I used to ask mine if I needed to chop it off... amazingly they always said no and the whining stopped 😂

@NewlyGranny

DD2 used to have crying jags aged about 3 or 4. DH got the local pharmacy to print a label with her name and "The Crying Medicine" on it, and put it on a proper medicine bottle. He filled it with orange juice concentrate and we gave her 5ml spoonfuls whenever she started.

Worked like a charm!

brilliant ! this bears out the proper scientific finding that placebo effect is stronger if the placebo is more dramatic (eg a red pill works better than a white pill)- even more pronounced in the more extreme versions of homeopathy where you have to succuss (sp?) the remedy.

We have magic kisses. And if that isn't good enough plasters work really well even when there is nothing there 🤦‍♀️