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Over at the NYTimes they're discussing what makes people buy brand name medicines instead of generics for their kids. Two people said they prefer to get the flavors their kids like, which doesn't seem an unreasonable position to me. (Well, they said "to preserve peace in the house" and "I pay whatever it takes", but I'm sure they meant "if it's available and affordable". People often dramatize the hardships and interpersonal issues of living with kids, have you noticed?)
There is a small but quite vocal cadre of commenters who read that and apparently translated it as "I personally serve my kids ice cream on a silver platter for breakfast every day, and don't let the poor darlings have any chores".
According to them, choosing to make medicine a little more pleasant for a sick child (at least, I assume the kids are sick) is "a privileged bunch of hooey", "abrogating your parental authority" (well, they said advocating, but I don't think they meant it), and "knuckling under to your kids" (this is all one commenter!). As the rest of them put it, you'd only do this if your kid is a "special snowflake" and are "headed for serious trouble on larger issues".
The day all those people start deliberately taking the worst tasting medicine for themselves instead of picking one in a flavor they like, that's the day I will, uh, knuckle under to their demands that I never, ever ask the nieces which flavor they prefer when we're in the store buying cough syrup.
There is a small but quite vocal cadre of commenters who read that and apparently translated it as "I personally serve my kids ice cream on a silver platter for breakfast every day, and don't let the poor darlings have any chores".
According to them, choosing to make medicine a little more pleasant for a sick child (at least, I assume the kids are sick) is "a privileged bunch of hooey", "abrogating your parental authority" (well, they said advocating, but I don't think they meant it), and "knuckling under to your kids" (this is all one commenter!). As the rest of them put it, you'd only do this if your kid is a "special snowflake" and are "headed for serious trouble on larger issues".
The day all those people start deliberately taking the worst tasting medicine for themselves instead of picking one in a flavor they like, that's the day I will, uh, knuckle under to their demands that I never, ever ask the nieces which flavor they prefer when we're in the store buying cough syrup.
