Valdivieso Family

Hello everybody,

So I checked the internet product specifications for my son's favorite
dinosaur chicken nuggets. They are, in fact, fully pre-cooked. (!) Thanks
for bringing this fact to my attention, and my level of culinary expertise
to this new all time high. I'll feed them frozen to my son, with pleasure,
from now on. That was easy.

I stopped coercing my son to brush his teeth. I offered to help him
each morning and evening for two days, and respected his wishes as he
politely declined to have them brushed. On the third day, to my great
surprise (just as I was privately pondering how disgusting his mouth must
have been), he asked me, totally unprompted, to brush his teeth for him.
He then specified that he wants them brushed "very slowly". I asked him if
I had been brushing them too fast in the past and he said yes. I promised
to do them slowly, and did. Since then, I have been able to brush his
teeth each morning and evening, and we remind each other, to ease his
hesitation, that they should be brushed slowly. It actually takes less time
now to brush them than in the past, if you include the pre-brushing struggle
we used to have with him.

Thank you for all of your insightful responses, both practical and
conceptual. I appreciate your perspectives and experience.

Carolyn Valdivieso



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Kristie Cochran

Carolyn,

Thanks so much for the update! My sons also love the dinosaur nuggest.
My 5yo goes thru times where he likes his food cold. I've let him taste
the dino nuggets frozen, but he doesn't like them that hard. Sometimes
I'll just keep some in the fridge so that he can have them cold without
breaking his teeth.

Way to go with the toothbrushing breakthrough! You gave him some space,
and then he felt comfortable enough to tell you how he wants his teeth
brushed. Hopefully he will start building more trust and any other
struggles can be resolved this easily.

Kristie in VA

Pamela Sorooshian

Thanks for giving us the good news, Carolyn. Sounds wonderful! AND -
the best thing is that you've set a pattern in place that will carry
you throughout all his childhood and teen years. Amazing, isn't it?

-pam

On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:29 PM, Valdivieso Family wrote:

> Thank you for all of your insightful responses, both practical
> and
> conceptual. I appreciate your perspectives and experience.

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