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Hi, this is Janet Landsfury. Welcome to Unruffled.

Interestingly, lately my inbox seems to be flooded with questions about toothbrushing.

So much so that I was even thinking about doing a podcast all about toothbrushing,

helping kids to brush their teeth.

But I kept thinking about it and you know it's just not an interesting enough topic to me. I mean it's not interesting at all to me to be honest.

It's this mundane part of my day, and I imagine also for kids too.

And probably, I mean, I could be wrong,

but even Dennis probably don't find it a super intriguing topic.

But then I received a question in a comment on Facebook

on my post, this may be why you're yelling. The comment was not about toothbrushing, but it reminded me how all of these cooperative activities, these tasks that we need our kids to do, we want our kids to do, how they're all related, and

that there is a magical approach for helping our kids to do them.

This magic isn't, unfortunately,

a magic wand that we can just wave

and unfortunately it also isn't saying some magic words or playing

magical games like what is sometimes offered on Instagram and Tik-Tock

for, quote, getting kids to do these things.

This magic also isn't about giving a child

a certain period of attention,

playing with a child filling their cup.

Even that, unfortunately, isn't a formula for a child

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