2 year old refuses to take medicine from us. Help! My 2 year old daughter refuses to take medicine and barely eats with us, but she has no problem taking medicine or eating when she's at the sitters house or her grandparents. We literally have to hold her down and squirt the medicine in her mouth for her to take it. I've watched the sitter give it to her and she takes it like it's candy. The same thing with food. We make her a plate every evening at dinner and she hardly touches anything, but the sitter says she eats great with her. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated! It's getting extremely frustrating having to fight with her every time.