Oh, I know, my parents did it too. Still appalling though.
ETA: Mind, I'd discovered for myself by the age of five that ice cream on infected tonsils was acutely painful, so even had I had them out much younger I doubt they'd have tried that particular line on me. "You'll never have tonsillitis again" would have done nicely as a motivator, and in fact did. It was the doctors who wouldn't go for it.
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Date: 2015-12-01 02:06 am (UTC)ETA: Mind, I'd discovered for myself by the age of five that ice cream on infected tonsils was acutely painful, so even had I had them out much younger I doubt they'd have tried that particular line on me. "You'll never have tonsillitis again" would have done nicely as a motivator, and in fact did. It was the doctors who wouldn't go for it.