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Posted: April 23 2008 at 2:32pm | IP Logged Quote LLMom
Do you ladies go through these quickly? I have 1 dc in particular who "needs" them several times a day. I am spending way too much money on them. Does anyone buy them in bulk at a place like Sam's or Costco? This dc gets hysterical if I tell her no. (she's 3) and I keep thinking she will grow out of it like my others did but this has been going on for 1 1/2 years and she's not slowing down.

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Posted: April 23 2008 at 2:44pm | IP Logged Quote mellyrose
Nate went through a phase like that. I bought boxes at the dollar store

He did outgrow it finally!

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Posted: April 23 2008 at 2:57pm | IP Logged Quote Red Cardigan
Here's a suggestion that sometimes works:

Buy plain band-aids with no characters etc. on them, and remind the child that they are for cuts or scrapes only.

Then buy a sheet of inexpensive stickers (you can get loads of them for next to nothing) and put them in a special place like a pretty box or basket; tell her these are the "cheer-up" stickers for "owies" that are NOT cuts or scrapes (i.e., not bleeding). This way, if she comes running to you telling you she's bumped her arm or finger or whatever, you can carefully check it and then say, "Oh, good! It's not bleeding at all! Would you like to put a cheer-up sticker on it?"

The only downside is that she may want a sticker in addition to a band-aid when she actually does have a little cut, but stickers are way, way cheaper than band-aids!

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Posted: April 23 2008 at 3:15pm | IP Logged Quote LLMom
I didn't think of the dollar store! Duh! And thanks for the sticker idea. Although I don't buy the pretty, character ones, she just wants band aids.

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Posted: April 23 2008 at 3:15pm | IP Logged Quote Chari
Is this inherent in children or what???

I tell them there has to be BLOOD.....or no need for a band aid because it is a waste of our resources.....not being good stewards and all that......like a 3yo could understand that ...but they might.

I LOVE the idea of a sicker instead, Red....great idea!

Lisa........sometimes my kids would lose it if they did not get the bandaid......but I just held my ground.....THERE MUST BE BLOOD.......it is pretty concrete and they eventually got it.

Commiserating with you....

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Posted: April 23 2008 at 3:23pm | IP Logged Quote Philothea
What happens when you get one so stubborn he will MAKE himself bleed just to get the bandaid?

(Not that I have one like this or anything .... oh, no.)
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Posted: April 28 2008 at 2:44pm | IP Logged Quote Lori B
My oldest always "needed" band-aids, and I simply couldn't afford them. I found a cheap plastic toy doctor's bag at a discount store that came with a band-aid "bracelet". Problem solved!

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