To Kill a Toothbrush
A while back we went to the Dentist with the kids.
Damien was not on his best behavior, as he would not open his mount for the dentist to get a good look.
So we will have to take him to a dentist that focuses on children for him.
The kids all got new cleaning kits, complete with toothbrush, toothpaste, and floss.
When it came time to brush teeth, a fight broke out over who would get to use the green tooth brush.
Since Sergey was given the green toothbrush by the dentist, and Damien the blue one, we decided to stick with that. Needless to say Damien was not happy with this. That is Damien’s logical thinking reared it’s ugly head.
“Papa I can’t use the blue tooth brush“, said Damien, “It’s broke“. Damien held up the blue tooth brush which now had a 90 degree bend in the neck. “See“, he said, “I have to use the green one because this one is broke“, and he made a grab for the green toothbrush. “No it’s OK“, I said, “it just got bent, by accident, here let em straighten it out“; so I straighten the blue brush out, and used it to clean his teeth.
The next night the blue brush was broke again, on this time more permanently, he had snapped the head of the toothbrush clean off. So I brushed his teeth with the broken end of the blue brush and still wouldn’t let him have the green toothbrush.
The day after that, Damien had to go to the bathroom, but since Sergey was in the downstairs bathroom, Damien decided that he must use the bathroom upstairs. After a few minutes I checked on him, and found him closing the drawers in the bathroom, and running out as soon as he saw me. After a moments inspection the coveted green toothbrush was now also broken, having it’s head removed.
So that night during teeth brushing time, we talked about how you can’t just break things to get what you want. I also gave Sergey a new (more solid) green toothbrush, and continued to brush Damien’s teeth with the broken end of the blue toothbrush. After brushing I put all the toothbrushes away in the linen closet, because even though the new green toothbrush is more solid, so is Damien’s determination, and I think the toothbrush would lose that showdown.
I did tell Damien that if he is good, that Santa will probably give him a new toothbrush.