How Do You Teach A Toddler To Brush Teeth?
Properly brushing your teeth is an important part of dental hygiene that most adults understand. Toddlers, however, have a different idea of what constitutes a clean mouth. It take both patience and creativity to teach a toddler how to brush teeth. Begin by brushing their teeth for them. Dentists agree that it’s the parents’ responsibility to ensure that a child’s mouth is clean until the he is six years old. You must use the correct form of brushing when you brush a toddler’s teeth since this is the first lesson he gets in dental hygiene. Let her brush her own teeth. Most toddlers enter an independent stage where they want to do things for themselves, so let her brush her teeth if she asks to. After she has finished, re-brush her teeth to make sure they’re clean. Make brushing teeth a fun game. Brush your teeth at the same time and see which one of you can brush longer, or play hide and seek and have him find where plaque likes to hide. Create a tooth brushing song, incorporating word
