Brushing my kids teeth!
You are probably thinking - what's the big deal...suck it up and get over it! And you are right, I should, but every night it is the same ritual...

"Ella, Aynslea, brush your teeth," (ten seconds later)..."Ella, Aynslea, brush your teeth," (twenty seconds later) "Ella, Aynslea brush your teeth"...the reply "I did"
"That was too fast, do it again. Thatcher, Adelaide, come brush your teeth. Ella, Aynslea, did you floss?" "Let me smell your breath...okay, no, you have to do that again, did you remember to brush your tounge? Thatcher, did you clean out the sink?"
Thatcher - "That wasn't me"
"Yes it was, all of the toothpaste is in the sink, you need to brush your teeth again. Did you floss? Adelaide, I've only been brushing for five seconds, you need to hold your spit longer than that..."
And so it goes!
The biting the toothbrush, the dripping of spit, the I have to spit or I might die noises they make three seconds after I begin the brushing ritual. The foaming at the mouth, the hunk of toothpaste in the sink (that no one will claim or clean).
And then, as if it wasn't bad enough, when we go to the dentist it is almost inevitable that someone has cavities..."what, I've been brushing their teeth, how is that possible?"
"Well, they are all flossing cavities, so you need to be doing a better job with flossing"
"Flossing, really? I never flossed my teeth as a kid, and I never had a 'flossing cavity' until I was 30 something, so really, could someone explain that to me???
I figure 20 some teeth per kid x 5 kids - we should be able to get through baby teeth with fewer than 100 cavities - right???




