If you have to give your child medicine for some particular ailment and they ask:
"Why must I take medicines when I feel okay?"
What is normally your reply?
Sorry, I'm horrible with this. I just tell them "because I said so". My son always throws a fit once he is better, especially when taking antibiotics for flu and he feels fine after three or four days. I am just not in the mood to argue with him when he isn't going to see past his own desire to stop taking the medicine. Occassionally I tell him that if he stops he will get sick again.