Ways to Keep a Sick Child Happy

Let's face it right now, folks. When you have a sick child, the world just seems to stop. They're miserable, cranky, feverish, throwing up and their body just plain hurts like an arthritic person. We feel bad, offering them more attention than they're used to in any one day along with medicines they'll fight to take or take too openly. But while you keep their inner body going strong to fight whatever they have, these children start to get the itches. You know what I mean, they want to play, run and laugh in spite of their bodies screaming, "No!" This leads to quite a bit of restlessness and what is a parent to do? Well I've gotten my personal list of 'things to do' when my little one is sick and hopefully one or two of them may work for you.

My daughter tends to get somewhat silly talking when she's not feeling her best. I think firstly that she is trying her own tactics to keep happy when she's just not feeling one hundred percent. Who can honestly blame her, right? We adults do what we can to cheer ourselves up when we can't sleep so it's only natural little ones do, too. At 4 my daughter discovered the novelty that is the 'knock-knock' joke. However, she only knew one version of it so after the first half hour she was getting aggravated at it not being too funny anymore. So I went online and hunted down new jokes for her, sitting with her in my lap and sharing these jokes with her. After she got the punchline (and kids do - they're really bright as we all know) she had to try it out on me and even her kitten. Not only did this amuse her but it was incredibly amusing for me to watch her face light up and start laughing each time a joke was finished. I didn't realize it until well after she'd gotten to sleep finally, but, the laughter had made me forget how worried I was for her being ill, too. So in a way making her happy made me happy. That is never a bad thing. It removes extra stresses from the parent angle. Something any parent can appreciate.