Q&A for How to Convince Your Parents You're Sick

The worst thing you can do is try different symptoms or illnesses. You might have to go along with whatever engagement you're trying to avoid. If they take you to school, keep up your symptoms while there and you might still be able to get out of it.

This might make your mixture too liquid; if the mixture is a greenish-yellow color, it might pass as bile. Otherwise, it needs some solid chunks to pass for vomit.

Faking a cough isn't particularly tricky; just replicate the typical feeling when you need to cough. For it to work at school however, you need to make sure you're seen by teachers, and are enough of a nuisance that they'll believe you're sick.

The best thing to do is to complain of a serious headache. It's impossible to check for this symptom, and if you can sell it well enough you should be able to convince her.

It's important to focus on your symptoms and illness more so than what you're trying to achieve. If you keep repeating that you shouldn't go to school, or that there's an important test, she'll know you're faking.

You have to make sure you don't sell too much. This might happen if your fake fever runs too high, or if you pretend to vomit too often. Unfortunately trying to convince your mom you don't need to go to the doctor is a surefire way to let her know you've been faking!

They might be particularly skeptical, or simply tough and won't let you skip engagements. If that's the case, you should focus on faking symptoms that are contagious or make you a nuisance to the people around you.

If you can't get access to these things, you can wait for a meal to make your mixture. Grab some leftovers, dilute them in a bit of water, and they'll make for a good mixture.

The best thing to do in this case is to create and use fake vomit. It's hard to argue with physical evidence.

The heat from the bag of water can warm up your skin and make it seem like you have a fever, but is not necessarily the best method as it requires significant preparation.