My trick to get the kids to enjoy brushing their teeth is to make it fun!

Examples:

1) Tell the children that they are alligators, monsters or crocodiles with really dirty teeth. All children enjoy being creatures with shiny white teeth!! ROAR!

2) With a funny and goofy voice, I help them brush all their teeth section by section by loudly saying, “BRUSH! BRUSH! BRUSH! ... BRUSH! BRUSH! BRUSH!”

3) I challenge my sons by asking, “Who can make the most toothpaste foam?” In no time, lots of foam is running down their chins!

Aishah Moen, mother of two boys aged two and four years old