Toothbrush drama 17 mnth old

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my 17th old has a battle with me every time I brush his teeth, he's very big and strong (about 3ft+) which doesnt help.

I thought i cant be the only person who has had this bother

anyone had this with their kid? plz help :)

Let him see you and anyone else brushing their teeth as a good example.
Make a game of it.
Let him do it himself.
Make up silly rhymes or songs to distract him while you do it.
No point in physically holding him down to do it -it'll create further problems.

Have 2 brushes.

I used to give dd a toothbrush and let her chew it while I would sort of pounce when I saw an opportunity and stick another brush in the gap when she opened her mouth. This way at least she got a bit of a brush without having to pin her down to the floor.

It is difficult. If it's any help she has been good at letting me brush them since she was about 2.

I always ended up having to hold mine to do it. Sometimes they would let me do it in front of cbeebies, but generally I just went for a firm hold and did it quickly. Not much fun, but got it out of the way.

good tips I'll try them, my lil has a paddy sucks a bit then throws

Besom- sounds like tatical thinking lol

I think somebody else told me to do that on here when I posted the same as you.

DS is 2 and I´m afraid I´ve been quite brutal at brushing his teeth with him crying and really hating it. I had tried everything - and his dad had really had some great ideas for making it fun, all to no avail. But a few weeks ago I started pretending the tooth brush was a different vehicle every night (i.e. tractor, digger, racing car and so on). He lets the tractor put the hay and straw in his bottom teeth and top teeth. He lets the street sweeper sweep his teeth. He lets the racing car rev up all round his mouth. It has been working a treat. As I say, it´s not that we never tried something like this before, but maybe he´s just got to the age where he likes it so much and maybe he´s also realised that the tooth brushing itself is really not so bad after all!

I had this problem.

My dentist told me to stop forcing the issue and just let him do it himself whilst watching his dad or me. Apparently it gets them used to doing it without any drama's so once the adult teeth come through they know how to brush and look after them properly.

(I must admit to pinning him down every so often to give them a proper scrub though)

Oh yeah, and since we've been doing it like this he's been fine. If we tell him it's time to brush his teeth, off he runs to the bathroom and stands on his stool with his toothbrush waiting for us to put the paste on.

He likes pretending to spit into the sink like daddy and me too and gargle mouthwash (water).

my little girl is 16 months and for the last few months we have given her her toothbrush with toothpaste on every time we brush our teeth and she usually has a bit of a suck and chew. If she hasn't done enough I hold her and say 'what noise does the lion make?' to which she goes ROAR and I get the brush in and have a little go. For now it seems to work!