Getting Joshua to brush his teeth was our most challenging parenting task for the longest time. Annette had a brilliant idea to make a toothbrushing poster, on which Joshua could put gold stars each time he successfully brushed his teeth (or let us brush it for him). And it worked. Tonite after dinner, he even pleaded with us to brush his teeth. Amazing.
I think it also helped that I gave him a choice of brushing the "hard way", aka, I hold him down and forcefully brush his teeth, or he can do it the "easy way"--by himself. He likes now to pretend to brush his stuffed monkey's teeth the "hard way."
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