If Rowan could explain to me why she doesn’t want to have teeth when she turns 15, it would make my life so much easier. I might not like her answer, but at least there would be a reason behind the non-tooth brushing that goes on now.
How is it that the only time she itches, needs to rub, needs to scratch, needs to sneeze, needs to twirl her hair, is when she’s brushing her teeth? She can be in the bathroom for twenty minutes “brushing” and come out with toothpaste still on her toothbrush.
The non-brushing is pushing me towards the edge. I’ve used every technique to get to brush like a big girl. We’ve brushed together. We’ve made a game out of it. She’s been punished. She’s been offered rewards. We sing songs. She gets to copy her brother and sister. How is it that baby brushes better than her? I’ve tried explaining about bad breath. All to no avail. She acts like she cares, that she desperately wants to get rid of the bad food monsters in her teeth, but it’s just an act because two seconds after she starts she has to stop to scratch, rub, and suck her thumb.
Maybe it’s her way to drive me stark raving mad, if so she is succeeding in spades.
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