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Showing my 6 yr old daughter & 4 year old son, youtube videos of tooth decay and explaining what happens if you do not brush or eat too much candy. This has hel

• aethertap 10y ago
  That's a great idea. My son (also four) really needs to see the consequences of candy eating. I'm pretty convinced that he would try to live exclusively on candy if we would buy it for him. My daughter was a thumb sucker, but she stopped when I showed her a few pictures of what could happen to her teeth if she kept it up. I was actually very surprised at how much impact it had. She was three at the time, and I wasn't sure if she was old enough to make that connection. One of the things I've slowly learned from them is that kids have a lot more ability to reason through consequences than most people give them credit for; the trick is to present it in the right way.