At what point when raising children is it not necessary to remind them to brush their teeth? Zoe and Miles are 11 and 8 now and won't brush their teeth. I have to phone home from work at about noon each day to remind them, and sometimes even then they don't do it. When I get home at 5:30 my first question is "Did you brush your teeth!?" Sometimes they don't brush until almost 6:00 at night!! Raising kids with sparkling white teeth will make me feel like I did a superb parenting job; I don't care about anything else except that they know Jesus and have good teeth:)
I can't even understand how they can go thru the day with funk on their teeth. If I don't brush my teeth it feels like my teeth are wearing sweaters, y'know "sweater teeth". Do I offer incentives for this daily task? How do I transfer the responsibility to them without they're teeth rotting?
Next week they go to camp and I won't be able to do anything. I'll have to stick reminder notes in their clean underwear, but Gosh what if they don't change that daily either?!
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