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No advice, but L is the same! She's never been too rough-and-tumble though, just drama queen. Whenever she sees a band-aid again, she starts whining and saying 'owwie!'. For fun I moved her band-aid from her thigh to her foot during a diaper change. She was preoccupied and didn't notice. Several minutes later I pointed out the band-aid on her foot and she started whining and limping... ::eyeroll::

@shopaholic: I really do not indulge her, she just puts on a show for fun, I think. I don't even have band-aids at home because she's so cautious she never does anything to get hurt. The 'owies' are just from shots and she babies them for weeks. So when she throws her drama queen fit when she sees her band-aid I just walk away and let her have her moment, but don't ever give her any attention. It doesn't escalate to much, but she sure keeps trying.
If she does get seriously hurt I scoop her up and give her some love, but I know the difference when she smacks her knee into the corner of our fireplace vs when she stumbles on a pillow and thinks her world just ended

@shopaholic: I agree, my daughter can be a drama queen and INSIST she needs a bandaid, princess one. Well I've gotten rid of princess/all character bandaids, if she needs one she will get an ugly brown one. But our rule is blood = bandaid, that's it!

Our family motto like @Mrs. Jacks is "shake it off, you're tough" and she literally shakes her body

@shopaholic: This last one was a 48 hour drama fest for us. She just started walking this morning! How on earth did *I* raise such a drama queen?! It feels really nice to know I'm not the only one

E is still pointing at the healed over, tiny dot of a scab she picked over a week ago. You can't even see it now and she still points to it and whines about her 'hurt'. She also makes me put "ointment" on her toes, like every other day. It started when she actually hurt her toe and I dabbed a little bit of witch hazel on it. Now she asks for ointment out of nowhere!

This sounds a bit silly, but maybe when they see the bruise is still there for a few days, they think it won't go away? B skinned a knee a while ago, and he wasn't super dramatic about it, but every time he noticed it he'd point and say "boo boo?" and look all disturbed. It wasn't hurting him, I think he was just weirded out that it stuck around for two weeks.