Toothbrush negotiations

Brushing teeth was not on my radar of parental expected duties. Bathing, diapers, feeding, walks, animal noises were all pretty well expected. But kids have teeth, and they need to be brushed it turns out.

Macy and Camy have no interest in having ME stick a toothbrush in their mouths. So toothbrushing is always a short-lived negotiation: the more berry-flavored orajel training toothpaste I put on the brush, the longer I have to run the brush around the girls' teeth before they suck off all the gel and permanently clamp down on the brush with their molars; thus ending the negotiation.

And so we negotiate nightly. And after they clamp down like little moray eels on their prey, I leave them to chew on the toothbrushes for a while. From the video below you can see they are starting to get the idea. Grandpa Harold, DDS would be proud...