Brushing Teeth

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At our house if you say the words tooth, teeth, brush, toothpaste, etc.  make sure you are not in between the children and the bathroom.  There will be a small stampede to the bathroom.  It you start to say “Brush your hair” the kids will be halfway to the bathroom by the time you say “your.” [It's better to say, "Your hair needs brushed."]

When we just had one child we supervised the teeth brushing process very well.  He had to stay in the bathroom or kitchen [right beside the bathroom], he never touched anything other than his mouth with the brush, and we painstakingly made sure every pearly tooth in his little mouth was scrubbed.

Then we had two children and she also had a special “baby” toothbrush that prevented the baby from choking herself.  We did pretty good with patroling her brushing time.  It was during this time that my husband said, “Does it count as brushing her teeth if she just sucks the toothpaste through her mouth?”  As you can see we were in a slow decline.

Now we have three children.  This girl has six teeth so far and I pray that they are sturdy ones.  She does brush her teeth more often than the other ones did because the older ones can now give her the toothbrush [not a special baby one] with toothpaste on it.  As for quality, well…. 

The youngest child gets her toothbrush from whomever she can so it has resulted in finding her toothbrush in about any room of the house.  Once we couldn’t find it at all.  For about a week she went begging for her toothbrush only to be told that it was lost.  We broke down and bought her a new one because the original one was still lost.  A month or so later it showed up - in my sneaker!  The second child said, “Look Mommy, C’s toothbrush!  Can I put toothpaste on it for her?”  Then the second child wondered why I said “No!” so quick and snatched the aforementioned toothbrush from her hands.

We are trying.  Prayerfully, by the time they are in school we will have the brushing-the-teeth process down better.

Did you hear about the mother that saw her son drop his toothbrush in the toilet and then pull it out and start to use it again?  She stopped him and told him that they had to throw the toothbrush out.  Then the little boy walked over, picked up her toothbrush, and started to throw it out.  The mother asked, “Why are you throwing out my toothbrush?”  The boy answered, “I dropped this one in yesterday.”

Ewww! = - )

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