My daughter is three and dosen't understand it's not time to lose baby teeth now!!?

She watched Aurther and DW(i think that's who it was) was wanting to lose a tooth like aurther. All she does is pull and tug on her teeth. I tell her it is not time yet she is still a little girl,not a big girl. What suggestions do you have for me to help her be more patient? It is kinda cute her being so excited,but I don't want her to dammage her teeth.

My daughter is three and dosen't understand it's not time to lose baby teeth now!!?
let her know what age that her teeth really do come out and tell her that author and dw were old enough to get there teeth out. tell her that she has to big like author and dw and when she gets that old then she can have her teeth come out. Also let here know that if she keeps tugging at her teeth then they'll nver come out. And the reason i say this is because sometimes you have to tell alittle lie or story to get them to undersatnd.
Reply:my daughter did the same thing after watching the same episode!!! I wanted to sqeeze DW actually becuase my daughter drove me bonkers over it. She won't harm her teeth from pulling on them, just watch her and if she starts pushing forward and backward a lot, that might harm it. I told my daughter that if you made your own teeth come out by pulling, tugging, etc that the tooth fairy wouldn't come. that the toothfairy only came when it fell out all by itself.
Reply:Yeah... my daughter had bouts of that. It comes and goes. Funny, I don't remember even being aware of this until I was at least in kindergarten.





Play-Doh makes a dentist thing with a head that you can mold teeth and put in it (and pull them out). If she's totally obsessed with pulling teeth, maybe this would be a diversion. You can tell her she can pull out the Play-Doh teeth but not her own.
Reply:I'm going through the same thing with my 5 year old who's turning 6 and it's killing her that her friends are losing their teeth and she doesn't even have a loose tooth yet.


So your child is only in round 1 of the waiting game!


Tell her that most kids don't start loosing their teeth until 6 and maybe that will convince her. At least until she gets closer to 6 that is.


Good luck
Reply:This is just the first in a long list of things she will think she should b ready to do long before she is. Keep reassuring her that her day will come. In the meantime get her a toy dentist kit and a stuffed animal with teeth to practice on.
Reply:my 4yr old daughter got given a childrens book called the tooth fairy it has a tooth bag and as the story goes on they will realise the teeth fall out when they do.


the author of the book is written by Jan payne and illistrated by poly bernatene thats how my daughter found out .so it is a good learning book on losing ur teeth.



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