This is how your child likes to brush his teeth - tips for parents

This is how your child likes to brush his teeth - tips for parents

Brushing your teeth does not allow you to start early enough, it should become an important part of the day from the beginning. Sometimes it is not so easy to persuade the little one about dental care. Read here how brushing teeth is a self-evident part of your day's routine for your child.

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Clean teeth from the beginning are a gift that will make your child for life. The longer the milk teeth hold, the more time the permanent dentition has. In addition to the important role model used by the parents, rituals, games or songs help to make your child's dental care a loving routine for a lifetime.

Rituals - Toothpicks are also part of it

Children feel the most comfortable in a clear frame, so rituals, which are repeated over and over again, are an important part of childhood. Rituals are also ideal for situations that are perceived as less beautiful by the child, such as dental hygiene, in order to establish a regularity. If the whole thing brings a fun factor, the better.

An important part of a ritual is the repetitive process. When brushing your teeth - a really monotonous affair - you can make good use of this. At the same time, brushing the teeth as well as the body care is installed in the same place of the morning ritual. A possible procedure: getting up, taking breakfast, brushing teeth and washing, putting on. Then the day can start.

Toothbrush rituals

It is important that you brush your teeth with the very young ones. At the beginning you can do this with a baby toothbrush or a fingerling. As early as possible, you should give your child the toothbrush in his hand and then clean it. The easiest way to bring the little ones to the routine when you join. A nice ritual is to always clean with mom and dad together. Small children love to imitate their parents - and so they like to take the brush in their hands. Here we have some suggestions for funny rituals to brush your teeth:

Make the toothbrush a washing machine that cleans your child's mouth for cleanliness. Supported by a funny story and the appropriate sounds, so the cleaning is one of the games you play with her child.
Give each tooth its own name and look forward to your child when each tooth is properly cleaned.
Sing a toothbrush when cleaning and try to sing along with your child in the mouth with the brush.
When you are cleaning up, use a hand doll that is on the move with the toothbrush in your child's mouth.
For older children you can organize a foam regatta. Who produces the most toothpaste room.

Special toothbrush

Depending on your age, your child needs different toothbrushes. Important: The brush must be soft and the brush head should not be too large. For the little ones who do not even have any teeth, there are brushes with soft rubber head and knobs. These models are more suitable for chewing on than for cleaning. Since babies like to put things in their mouths, it will chew them with pleasure. The first "brushes" can also be helpful when teething. The first proper toothbrush should have a short and thick handle, the bristles must be soft and soft so that the delicate oral cavity is not injured. From the primary school there are special age-appropriate toothbrushes, also electric models are on offer. The brushes themselves are usually used to indicate the age for which the brush is suitable.

If your child completely refuses to clean, you can also use a clean - best-cut - cotton lobe and rub the teeth. This at least reduces the plaque.

Toothpaste

At first, brush water and brush to brush your teeth. If the diet of your child is varied and also sweets on the program, must be toothpaste. Special children's toothpaste for the very small ones take care of the delicate taste buds and come without the refreshing-sharp taste and foam. From the age of 6 years, you should have access to children's toothpaste with a stronger cleaning effect. The downside: many products taste so good that your child eats them rather than brushing their teeth. A good contact is the dentist. He knows suitable means that clean the teeth and are suitable for children.

When dental care becomes a struggle

In the defiant phase, and whenever the child is in a phase in which it pounds on its own self-determination, self-determined rituals can also become a struggle. Now it says: Do not give up! And do not make a drama of it. If good persuasion does not help, clarity and consistency are required. This does not mean that you can brush your child with your teeth! Instead, starting from a certain age, help explain what effects it has when the teeth remain dirty. Possible consequences may be that your child can not eat sweets as long as it does not brush his teeth. But this always with a logic that is understandable to you and your child. However, you should not always hack on the topic. Only when your child asks sweetly, point out that it can only eat chocolate again when it regularly brushes its teeth. The following tips may also help:

For smaller children often a new and special toothbrush helps, also electric brushes can arouse the interest and the desire to clean.

Small children can easily be distracted. Read his favorite book and brush his teeth. Or sing a new toothpick.

Sometimes long-running rituals are simply boring, for example because they are simply no longer age-appropriate. Try a different and more exciting ritual.

Ask your child and ask if it can also brush his teeth on one leg or brush his teeth in another unfamiliar position.
Bring your teeth to the teeth while you are cleaning your teeth.
Holding and brushing your child's teeth with force should not. Although this provides for clean teeth, the next generation, however, the whole occasion is still quite mad and the dental care can be the detested part of the evening. And do not worry: If the plaster refusal is only a short phase, there is no danger for the teeth of your child.