Lately, Emilia has decided that it is much more fun to go into the bathroom, take out her toothpaste and toothbrush and pretend to get ready to brush her teeth than to actually brush her teeth. When we ask, “Emilia, do you want to brush your teeth?”, she marches right into the bathroom, opens the drawer that holds her toothbrush and toothpaste and gets them out.
She can spend forever sitting on the floor, opening the toothpaste lid, putting the bristles to the tube, shutting the lid and then repeating. When it comes time to actually squeeze a little toothpaste on her brush and brush her teeth - she is NOT interested and puts up a good fight. We have tried the suggested methods out there...all of them. Letting her brush first, letting her hold her own toothbrush while we brush, brushing in front of her with our toothbrush as an example, and finally – laying her on the floor while we kneel over her, trying to just get the job done...thanks for this suggestion Karen! Regardless of our method, she squirms, squeals, screams and sometimes even gives up a couple tears. But when it's all done - she goes right back to her busy, smiley, silly self – complete with clean teeth. We know this is just one of the many battles we will face as Emilia decides she wants more independence...we just hope she will decide that independence is much sweeter without cavities...
Lately, Emilia has decided that it is much more fun to go into the bathroom, take out her toothpaste and toothbrush and pretend to get ready to brush her teeth than to actually brush her teeth. When we ask, “Emilia, do you want to brush your teeth?”, she marches right into the bathroom, opens the drawer that holds her toothbrush and toothpaste and gets them out.
She can spend forever sitting on the floor, opening the toothpaste lid, putting the bristles to the tube, shutting the lid and then repeating. When it comes time to actually squeeze a little toothpaste on her brush and brush her teeth - she is NOT interested and puts up a good fight. We have tried the suggested methods out there...all of them. Letting her brush first, letting her hold her own toothbrush while we brush, brushing in front of her with our toothbrush as an example, and finally – laying her on the floor while we kneel over her, trying to just get the job done...thanks for this suggestion Karen! Regardless of our method, she squirms, squeals, screams and sometimes even gives up a couple tears. But when it's all done - she goes right back to her busy, smiley, silly self – complete with clean teeth. We know this is just one of the many battles we will face as Emilia decides she wants more independence...we just hope she will decide that independence is much sweeter without cavities...
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We had the same problem until I bought Marah a new toothbrush with duckies on it last week. Apparently its ok if it has duckies:) Kids are so funny.....
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