Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Trauma?

Bela hates brushing her teeth now after her first visit to the dentist. We really have to force her to brush her teeth and most often than not, Howell will just decide not to force Bela and just let her sleep without brushing her teeth. Howell doesn’t like the idea of constricting Bela so we can brush her teeth by force. So he will just say to let it pass and give Bela some time to forget about her first dental visit.

Could it be that Bela was traumatized by her first visit to the dentist that’s why she really resists when we try to brush her teeth? I haven’t tried changing her toothpaste though. I'm still hoping that she just don’t like the taste of her toothpaste that’s why she is resisting. Before, we just use water to brush her teeth because that’s what her pedia recommended to us because according to her Pedia, kids tend to swallow the toothpaste. So this is really Bela’s first experience in using toothpaste

Do you have any suggestion on how we can convince her to brush her teeth?

2 comments:

♥SomethingPurple♥ said...

there are a lot of cool toothbrush for kids and toothpaste, maybe you could bring bela to the grocery and let her choose what she likes.

Jane said...

if she's into books, maybe you can buy a a book about brushing her teeth or something. sophia kase super big effect her potty book eh kase she loves books. or make her brush on her own muna... para she'll enjoy. from putting toothpaste to brushing to gargle hayaan mo magisa. usually kids will like that. last suggestion ko, take her toothbrush shopping, make her choose which toothbrush she likes and toothpaste symepre with matching bola na yan while buying telling her to use it etc etc...