We had our fair share of NOs from our little Gracia ever since she learn this word from 'dunno who', me or mummy? Anyway, we had been dealing with her "no" more often lately during her brushing teeth session. Every time mummy raise the issue of brushing her teeth, she will automatically say "no!I dun wanna brush teeth". We had used a couple of method to encourage her like using her fav soft toy (oscar fish) as a leading example. Sometime daddy used fear factor by telling her that if she don't brush her teeth, incy wincy spider will come and bite them because they are so dirty and spider like dirty things, but Lina restrian me to used fear factor too often worrying that she might have a phobia for spider in the future.
Now we realize that she is two. She’s trying to establish her own routines and exert her own opinions. The problem is, she’s two. She does’t understand why she needs to brush her teeth no matter how many times we may explain it to her. So our brilliant mummy bought a Elmo book showing Elmo brushing teeth and enjoying it, and here it goes (monkey see monkey do).
She is an absolute doll! I completely understand why Lina being paranoid about her teeth. My girls front tooth was decaying before we get really tough with brushing it.
Don't know what the cause really is, maybe it was breastfeed on demand at night. Whatever it is, we are glad we are starting to prevent her teeth from decaying even more. And most probably we will find a pediatric dentist for a assessment evaluation for her tooth one of this day.
Some of the content inside the book
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