The placebo effect is a real thing, especially in cases where everything is pretend anyway.So let’s look at it just a little more deeply (without going too overboard): Then I realized I didn’t have any ingredients, which forced me to think a little bit longer about her question. I rushed to the kitchen to gather ingredients to make homemade gummy candy, which I NEEDED because my toe felt weird. So my thought process for Jennifer went like this, “Homemade Magic Fix-It Gummy Bears! HOMEMADE GUMMY BEARS! WITH JUICE!” (We have since overcome our vast age difference, and now she’s one of my favorite people in the world, even when I don’t give her sugar water.) It was our one special thing, because I was 7-1/2 years older than her, and it was the only way I could get her to go to bed and leave me alone to do angsty, un-good-big-sister-like teenager stuff. I used to give placebos (sugar water) to my sister – the mother of that adorable child up there – when she was little. Little did she know, the legion of Crunchy Betties WERE. Little did Jennifer know (at least until I emailed her and told her this was happening), I actually didn’t feel up to the challenge – personally. Jennifer Giving Your Kids Placebos for “It Feels Kinda Weird” I feel you, Crunchy Betty, are up to this challenge. My kids are four and six, so they can have pretty much any EO obviously I’d like it to be something that I don’t have to worry about overdosing them with when they’ve got “pains” three nights in a row. I’ve got an elderberry-based cold tonic that they take but don’t LOVE so that’s out which is too bad since it gives the stuff a cool purple/red color. And something else, so it looks like I made a real tonic for them. I’m thinking honey, obviously, because it has to be more alluring than that grape-flavored kid’s Tylenol which, even to me, smells like children’s crack. I need medicine.”Īnd so I need you to come up with a tonic that I can give them so they’ll be happy and go to sleep thinking they’ve taken some real medicine. So many nights during bedtime I get the “Mommy, my hand is aching” or “Mommy, my toe feels weird. I need for you to come up with a way to deceive my kids. Let us see him illustrate the sneakiness of children by his disarming sideways glance above.

I certainly did, when it came in from Jennifer a few days ago.īut first, any excuse I have to post adorable pictures I’ve taken of my nephews, I will. Ah, I think you parents will enjoy this particular question.

Placebo tiny balls