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Hahaha. Yes. My daughter complains that her stomach hurts, or her head hurts, or her back hurts - my favourite recent ailment of hers is that "her baby is kicking" - I guess I'm complaining a bit too much at the end of this pregnancy

She usually uses the excuse when she's been asked to clean up her mess or eat her lunch, so I don't take it too seriously. When she complains about something out of the blue (and she's not required to do something), I take it more seriously.

Constantly. As an excuse for being naughty, in an attempt to get medicine, when she doesn't want to get dressed, clean up, eat dinner, and the list goes on. The other day she puked at school and when I got her on the way home she told me "I wanted you to pick me up early"

I am super paranoid about this because my mom never believed we were sick and we used to have to go to school sick and we didn't get proper medical treatment for a variety of illnesses. Some noteworthy ones included an ear infection that caused deafness in one ear for months, a broken arm, a major cut that required 11 stitches. If I was faking sick to avoid something, I would have to fake a major illness, which is obviously not ideal either. I appreciate that it's an extreme case, but it has made me take every claim of sickness seriously.

Instead of running her to the doctor all the time, I talk to her about it - "does your tummy hurt because you're sick, or does it hurt because you're sad you have to go to daycare today?" Or "would some extra love make your tummy feel better?" That type of thing. She's only 2.5 but she is able to articulate whether it's a feeling or an illness quite well.

Not to get out of things, but since having a bad cold recently he has started to announce that he 'needs honey' (I give him it for his throat), and claiming he has a bad cough!

Yes but we turn it back on him, like oh you must be hungry you should eat your dinner, or maybe you're getting sick so you should go to bed now. We still get false I'm sicks but he amends them to be more truthful so I know better what is going on.