Your kid's teeth?

[prairiemama]

I'm getting kinda berated over at Natural Family for not pinning Robin down and thoroughly brushing her teeth every night. How do you do dental hygiene with your kid? We give Robin her toothbrush with toothpaste on it and she usually brushes them sort of haphazardly, but they do get some attention. Sometimes she'll let me finish up. We don't brush in the morning, and I don't force her to do it or do it for her because I figure later on, I'll want her to have positive associations. But apparently this is dooming her to dental surgery under general anesthesia :P.

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[mosscollection.livejournal.com]

We do the same EXACT thing as you. Whether that is good or bad, I dunno, but I feel the same as you about pinning her down will give her bad association and she will not want to do it at all, whereas now she actually enjoys brushing her teeth and I let her do it whenever she feels like it (which is usually a few times a day) and I will put Tpaste on the brush at least 2 of those times. Ocassionally I feel diligent about trying to help her pay more attention to the front teeth b/c she has a geminated tooth, but that is my only concern b/c it is easy to get cavities in those.