Using the Meltdown to Avoid a Meltdown

Eden is doing ok, though she's started coughing and that hurts her throat a lot. She's very negative and doesn't want medicine, water, juice, gatorade, jello, pudding, or anything else that she's been told is ok to have. So we've resorted to watching Ice Age II: The Meltdown over and over again, to get her mind off of the pain, and then we can gently remind her to take drinks and she doesn't even remember it wasn't her idea!