Hurray on the standing Oops.
DD2 had her first go yesterday and was delighted with herself.
She is growing up so fast-like you TS I can just feel that transition from babyhood kicking in and while it is lovely to have her peeping back from behind doors when I call her or following me to have lunch with DD1 it is bittersweet to be leaving her baby days behind.
Thanks for all your thoughtful comments about the teeth thing. We have tried every kind of tooth brush. The tooth fairy thing is a lovely idea but won't wash with a boy who is enthused about how smart drugs work I fear.
On one level it comes down to what VG described: a genuine aversion to having the feeling of the toothbrush at the back of his mouth. I have finally concluded a similar battle over toe-nail cutting which comes down to the same fear of being meddled with. If I say that when I was pregnant with DD1 the thing that put me off having a second most was the prospect of toenail cutting you'll get the picture of how tricky this is.
I stick with a joky CBT thing of asking him to rate the experience on a scale from blowing his nose to having his head cut off. I also brush DD1's first so that he can see I'm doing the same thing with no ill effects.
I think at the minute he's just experimenting with a bit of teenagerish behaviour because he thinks he has finished growing up. And the teeth thing has become a way of acting out his resistance to me (and his fury about the fact that daddy is a bit absent at the moment).
I'm telling him that he can't just rely on believing he is a good boy: he needs to make as many good choices as he can, and that he has the power to 'choose' to stop this being an issue.
Got to run ..
Love to all.