Be A Good Kid, Rasie a Good Kid

I am feeling like a good kid today. My dental hygienist is again very pleased with me for taking good care of my teeth. After years and years of her consistent coaxing and convincing, I finally picked up the habit of daily flossing. And what a huge difference it made!

The talk of cultural difference is very specific in this case. The difference here is in the degree of advancement in modern civilization. I was not brought up knowing there was such a thing as flossing. Most of my molars had fillings and re-fillings in the first 15 years of my life. In the past 15 years in Canada though, I had probably one repair work, to make up for a job not well done before.

Understand how much it takes to alter a habit you had formed in your childhood. My friend P told me when she was a little kid, nobody told her sugar was bad. She and other kids ate to their heart content. Now she cannot stop before she finishes a whole carton of ice-cream. We were lucky because there weren't a lot of candies around back then.

That's why it's so important I, being a mother, pass on the messages to my kid. Sienna is being told, in varioius ways, that sugar is bad even thought it's sweet. Sienna is being informed of all the different ways to protect her teeth, not eating a lot of candies is part of it. Now I floss her teeth at least twice a week. She lies there like getting a spa treatment.