Yes, this is what you think it is. When I was growing up, this is how we'd give our pets medicine. This is how we had to give Jonathan his Stratera when he was about four. He couldn't swallow a pill. So we tried to hide it in a spoonful of peanut butter. It didn't really work because he could taste it. I tried to hide it in Oreo cookies, pudding, yogurt and juices. He could pick it out every time.Everyday I would ask him how he wanted his medicine.
He finally settled on peanut butter.
However, he would mix it up between smooth peanut butter and chunky peanut butter. But it was even more complicated than that. For about a month the "pattern" (because he was into patterns at the time), was "On school days I want smooth peanut butter and on non-school days I want chunky." And he was consistent. If there was a holiday or a teacher's work day with no school, he'd remind me it was a chunky peanut butter day. After a month he changed his pattern to Monday, Wednesday, Friday was for smooth and Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday was for chunky.
I don't recall what Sunday was. Then he changed to an AA, B, AA pattern. Do you remember those patterns from school math and/or language arts? So it would be smooth, smooth, chunky, smooth, smooth, chunky....Then the patterns got really complicated. I'd have to ask him each day. Sometimes I would ask because I couldn't figure out the pattern. Sometimes I'd ask because I wanted to know if he really could keep track of his own complicated patterns, which he could.
Eventually, we stopped giving him Stratera. He decided he didn't want to take the medication anymore. It became a huge battle or the wills. Eventually he won. He started regurgitating it immediately after he took it. I didn't feel comfortable making him take another dose because I didn't know how much was still in his system. As it turned out, he was actually better without the medication and we stopped giving him anything until the last six months.
In the meantime, this little exercise was another example to us of how smart he was when it came to math concepts.
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Haha... that reminds me of the days when my parents hide my pills and vitamins. They hide them in peanut butter, jam and ice cream.
LOL... which reminds me...
I've been wondering why I hardly get sick when I was little, and eventually found out that my mother had been hiding my vitamins in my snacks!