My 4 year old has been down with a fever all weekend. I can feel that he's hot and that the fever comes down with Tylenol, but I can't get an accurate temp on him. We have a Braun ear thermometer that I've never gotten an accurate temp with. A Safety first that has different probes for axillary, oral, and rectal. But the axillary temp is coming back at like 94.5 which is obviously not right and he's still too young to figure out the thermometer under the tongue. There's no way I'm going to get a rectal temp on him. We also have another random digital thermometer that wasn't reading right under the arm either. This is really the first time he's been sick enough for me to need to get an accurate temp since he's been too old for a rectal temp.

What kind of thermometer do you use? Why is it so hard to get a thermometer that works!