Brooke: Mom we have to leave for school right now. I'm in a play this morning at assembly and it is VERRRRRRRRY important.
Me: Okay, did you make your bed? Did you pack your lunch? Did you brush your teeth?
Brooke: Yes, yes, and no that's disgusting.
Me: What's disgusting?
Brooke: Brushing your teeth in morning.
Me: Excuse me?
Brooke: Nope, that just doesn't work for me. It's gross to do that in the morning, mom.
Me: (About to hyperventilate because we are more than half way through the school year and it really hasn't occurred to me to ask this before. I just often like to ask questions in threes so brushing her teeth was just thrown in for good measure today.)
You mean today it's gross but the other previous one hundred or so days of school this year it has been fine to ummm brush them right?
Brooke: Nope.
Me: What about the cavity monsters that will surely be eating away at your teeth today and then you'll have to get the cavities filled which require shots and then when you get older you'll have to get root canals and ALL that could be avoided by simple brushing your teeth.
Brooke: You told me monsters weren't real. So it really doesn't bother me anymore.
Me: Well, too bad I'm the boss of you. Maybe there are other moms out there who don't care that their children have stink breath. You can hang a sign around your neck and go and stand out on the street. "Looking for a mom who doesn't mind stink breath." That's right. Your sign can read that. And then maybe they'll adopt you and you can all live together in one big happy stink breath family. But until then, you'll be brushing your teeth... in the morning, in the evening, and now I'm adding when you get home from school as well.
I like things in threes you know. And that's what got me into this mess in the first place. Sometimes ignorance is bliss--- even if it is a little stinky.
Me: Okay, did you make your bed? Did you pack your lunch? Did you brush your teeth?
Brooke: Yes, yes, and no that's disgusting.
Me: What's disgusting?
Brooke: Brushing your teeth in morning.
Me: Excuse me?
Brooke: Nope, that just doesn't work for me. It's gross to do that in the morning, mom.
Me: (About to hyperventilate because we are more than half way through the school year and it really hasn't occurred to me to ask this before. I just often like to ask questions in threes so brushing her teeth was just thrown in for good measure today.)
You mean today it's gross but the other previous one hundred or so days of school this year it has been fine to ummm brush them right?
Brooke: Nope.
Me: What about the cavity monsters that will surely be eating away at your teeth today and then you'll have to get the cavities filled which require shots and then when you get older you'll have to get root canals and ALL that could be avoided by simple brushing your teeth.
Brooke: You told me monsters weren't real. So it really doesn't bother me anymore.
Me: Well, too bad I'm the boss of you. Maybe there are other moms out there who don't care that their children have stink breath. You can hang a sign around your neck and go and stand out on the street. "Looking for a mom who doesn't mind stink breath." That's right. Your sign can read that. And then maybe they'll adopt you and you can all live together in one big happy stink breath family. But until then, you'll be brushing your teeth... in the morning, in the evening, and now I'm adding when you get home from school as well.
I like things in threes you know. And that's what got me into this mess in the first place. Sometimes ignorance is bliss--- even if it is a little stinky.
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