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Our kids should learn how to brush twice a day for two minutes per session. Two minutes sounds like a relatively short amount of time—until you’re trying to wrangle a kid who would rather clamp their mouth shut for all of eternity then let that brush anywhere near them.
When my daughter was a toddler, she loathed brushing her teeth, but once we found a toothpaste flavour she enjoyed (pink bubble gum, of course), her perspective immediately shifted to “OOOH CANDY!” Every time I squeezed some onto her toothbrush, she complained, “That’s so little!” She wanted a whole mouthful…
As a parsimonious young adult with what I thought was a pretty decent set of choppers, I once let a decade elapse between visits to the dentist. I brush. I floss. I figured everything was more or less cool.
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