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    I have to admit the awful truth... I still brush DS8's teeth.

    Same here for DD8 and DD6. I let them brush their own teeth and they ended up both getting a cavity. Now I brush either at night or morning and supervise them flossing and rinsing with ACT.


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    Thanks, 'Neato. Now I don't feel like the bad mom who is creating a totally dependent kid!! I almost went back and erased that confession, just because I was so embarrassed. My in-laws give me all kinds a grief about how DS8 is too dependent on us for some things. I think it is just part of his asynchronous development. If he is a teenager and I'm still doing things for him, then I will worry. But he is already focusing on how to learn to cook dinner and such for when he goes out on his own. For some things, he is more like a teenager than a small kid. And for other things, he is more like a four-year old.

    I just have to remind myself of that some days, and let him be who he needs to be. That may be part of where any of his frustration and emotional meltdowns come from. He has one foot in the big-boy world and the other foot in the little-kid world. Sometimes, even he doesn't know know which world he belongs in. That would go with my theory of higher frequency of meltdowns after major developmental or physical growth. He keeps reaching for the stars and is so frustrated when he lands ungracefully here on Earth.

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    He keeps reaching for the stars and is so frustrated when he lands ungracefully here on Earth.

    Me too! wink I think a lot of us feel that way at times.




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    Thanks, 'Neato. Now I don't feel like the bad mom who is creating a totally dependent kid!!

    Well, independence can be fostered over time and you two have lots of it! You only get one set of teeth! cool




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    Our pediatric dentist actually told DH and I to brush the kids' teeth for them until they are 9. Apparently most kids don't have the fine motor skills to be able to do it correctly until then. So Ebeth, you were just following ADA guidelines! grin

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    Yeah, but one only lasts you through, what 9 or 10?

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