🪥Here’s how to help kids manage toothpaste and learn to spit into the sink! It’s easy, just follow my Three T’s!
🐠🐠Today I used TWO the Innobaby mini-scrub silicone fish because they have a suction cup that sticks the fish to the sink so kids have a secure target to aim for! Plus, they wash up easily and suction again to the mirror for a quick dry till next time. (These are also the most gentle scrubbies for dirty faces or baby’s cradle cap) BUT… you can also find them on my Amazon shop under “kitchen tools for kids” because they are perfect for little hands to scrub veggies! So many uses! Catch them here 👉🏼😉🎣amazon.com/shop/mymunchbug
💗Make sure kids feel stable and secure by resting their elbows on the countertop. Fine motor skills, like spitting, requires trunk stability. It’s hard to spit if you’re wobbly!
💦🪥Try practicing the steps with just water and a toothbrush, so the routine if familiar to your child before
adding that little bit of toothpaste.
🪥🎯🐠🐠The three T’s: Toothpaste, Target, Two!
🪥Toothpaste: Just a pea-sized dot will do!
🎯Target: Ideally, draw the
number two on the target, with the number facing your child so he can see it. Or, just double the fun by putting two targets that stick in the sink!
🐠🐠Two: When your little one is ready to spit, encourage them to enthusiastically to say “TWO”, with a little force on their tongue. Because they are looking at the target, seeing the visual cue “2” and tilting their
head down, they can’t help but spit. With a little practice, they will become more proficient at it, but
expect a little mess at first!
✨This is important: Recently, a large account took my original idea and changed the word to “ptew” - as a speech pathologist I want you to know the combination of P and T is not only incredibly hard (and not developmentally appropriate) for little kids to say, it also does not duplicate the motor pattern of spitting. So bigger accounts that take original ideas … please stop.
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