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Four US daycare workers charged with spiking children’s food with melatonin
(www.theguardian.com)
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I don't know that I would ever use it on a kid, but that wasn't what I was talking about. I was talking about the impulse to drug a kid to calm them down. Pretty much every parent has had that thought at one point or another. But it's just a silly fantasy you're not supposed to act on.
I let my baby smoke a fat joint to try to get to sleep, but it didn't work. He just kept wanting to eat and wouldn't shut up about the federal legalization of marijuana.
Worst advice I've ever gotten.
True story: My grandmother, who spent a lot of time watching me while my parents worked, used to make wine out of sour cherries she grew in the garden and I had this fond memory of her regularly giving me a bowl of the delicious cherries from the bottom of the wine vat to eat and then one day I realized, "wait a second, those were full of alcohol!" She was clearly doing it to calm me down if I was too hyper.
She was not the best person.
Yeah. The Bear has an episode where they Xanax the kids on accident. Hilarious but something that should never happen intentionally.
We gave our son children's Benadryl to get him to sleep, but:
He was five.
He couldn't sleep because he broke his arm earlier that day and we had to wait until the next day to get a cast on it (so the swelling would go down). He just had a splint, so every time he moved, it hurt.
When we called the ER to ask what to do so he could sleep, they said anything they would do would require him to be admitted, so the best solution was to just give him a dose of children's Benadryl.
He was our kid, not someone else's kid entrusted to our care with the understanding that we wouldn't drug him.
Plenty of parents have given their kids whiskey though it's not as common as it was when I was a kid
Sure. But that doesn't make it something you should do.
I agree. I doubt a doctor would recommend it. People in this thread are.actibg like it's unheard of though. It's super common especially during teething.
The FDA and CDC do not recommend melatonin to be given to children under 2 yrs of age tho. So that's an issue.
I'm sure they don't recommend jack Daniels either
They are more into Glenlivet.
Nap time!
Ah yes. This and Kidstoned chewable Valium! Works wonders for peace.