I was not a very eager parent to take my toddler or even preschooler to the dentist. (tisk tisk, I know). But, in order to get into public school, Matthew had to go. We talked about how the dentist was going to count his teeth and tell me how many he had. I was told sometimes on the first visit, the child can be anxious, so he was welcome to sit in my lap if he or I wanted... HA. Not this big boy. First, he was told to pick out a color of HAND PAINT. And he got to put his hand print on the wall. Pretty cool if you ask this five year old. Then after washing that off, a nice crazy lady came up to him and said she was the fairy princess here to clean his teeth. He laughed at her. She introduced him to "Tickles the Tooth cleaner" and "Mr. Thirsty the spit slurper". He cracked up. He sat proudly in the chair by himself and wore his cool sunglasses just like he'd done it 100 times before. He held my hand the whole time but I was so shocked. Thank you so much to my friend T for giving me this recommendation. I was floored with this practice. And we got to check off another first on Matthew's list. I can not believe that Kindergarten registration is next week. ACK! .... Maybe I'll be brave enough to take Mark to the dentist before the week before he's in kindergarten now that I know it's not that scary.
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