Daily brushing teeth alone baby must learn to 5-6 years. However, many parents do not know firsthand what make adorable child stick to the regime in this matter. Kids hard to resist, and often the procedure of cleaning teeth takes more strength than full-time at the bench. Is there a way out? There is! Turn the necessary hygienic procedures in the game.
Preparatory stage
Gather with your child and walk to the store, to the department, which sells toothbrushes. Tell your child that the Tooth Fairy that controls healthy teeth, delayed for a baby surprise -The soft and beautiful brush.
When choosing a brush, make sure it is really made of soft artificial fiber. "For the company" to buy a baby toothbrush toothpaste or gel, which does not represent a danger in swallowing (this information is usually indicated on the package). Preference was given to natural products, whose quality is certified. Up to 2.5 years it is possible to brush your child's teeth without using toothpaste.
Brush your teeth fun
To interest the child, encourage him to clean your teeth or "teeth" favorite toy. Show how you personally properly brush your teeth. Watching you, let the kid repeats these steps for yourself. After the game, be sure to do the right brush your child's teeth! Clean no longer than 3-5 minutes, so that the child is not tired.
"The head-tummy-back"
Start brushing teeth with chewing surfaces. Move the brush with short translational movements from the extreme right of the tooth to the tooth extreme left separately on the upper and lower jaws. Tell your child, so you pet's teeth on the head.
Next clean the outer surface in a circular motion with the teeth of closed while grasping the upper and lower teeth. Gradually moving brush teeth from the extreme right to the extreme left. Tell your child that you pet Zubkov tummies.
Inner surface scrub sweeps vertical movements of the chewing gum to the surface. Tell your child that you are so scratched his back teeth.
Observe the principle of movement of the brush teeth, during cleaning, they must be vertical and circular, 3-5 movements in each pair of teeth.
"Princess on the Pea"
For children a piece of pasta, extruded on the brush should be the size of a pea. A large amount of toothpaste may lead to excessive foaming, making it difficult to process. Tells the kid that you need to constantly spit out the toothpaste.
Important: Children toothpaste must not contain more than 0.03% of fluorine. So the harm to the child's body, in the case of a child to overeat pasta, will be minimal.
