I take a lot of effort to see that my baby girl brushes her teeth every night. It's a tiring process sometimes & funny the other times. When I ask her to spit the paste, she swallows a little & then spits out the rest. Curiosity killed me & i tasted her yummy toothpaste... are they selling strawberry jam instead of toothpaste for kids? yum...it was soooo tasty I swallowed it too! :) No wonder my princess couldn't spit it out!! But still, everyday I go "spit, spit, spit...ahhh like that...good girl..." ...i want her to know it's not meant for swallowing!
The other day she had to take some medicine & we tried our best to make her swallow it... but she just wouldn't! She would close her mouth & then spit it out. Anger, frustration, helplessness all crept within me but patience overcame it all & I tasted the medicine...yuck!! No wonder she couldn't swallow it... it was bitter & sweet, with an odd oily
feel on the tongue. But I would still go "drink, drink, drink it all up" ...hoping she would just swallow it somehow.There goes the irony... the toothpaste which shouldn't be swallowed is so tasty that the kids just swallows them ...And the medicine which should be swallowed tastes so bad & odd that they can hardly swallow it! WHAT AN IRONY!
