Cathy Re: How many parents still...

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So much of this is true. I had said the same thing too. My daughter

is 9. I just started 'making her' do the work. I help her with hair

and rinsing. I say okay time for scrub a dub dub. I ask her to do

each part. She does a quick effort and sometimes just touches the

part for a sec but it's the motion and the routine. It'll be refined

and she still prefers a bath to a shower. So once I don't have to

do so much coaching I'll try getting some showers in.

She doesn't care about drying off. Drip dry is much to her liking.

So she needs to be supervised. She will willing brush her teeth!

I've got that going for me but it didn't happen overnight. An idea I

had was to post a color picture of how bad teeth look. Like you'd

find at the dentist office. The visual will assit in the persasion

of getting it done. My son who is 5 I have to help and remind him

still.

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> >> I do. She is 9, I still have to verbally prompt her to wash hair,

> >> rinse hair, and esp. brush teeth.

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