A Big Miss for Clean Teeth

Why is it that my youngest daughter makes so much of a mess when she starts the several times daily ritual of brushing her teeth? She makes such a huge mess and leaves so much caked on tooth paste all over the sink that I really thought that I was going to have to rent some sort of industrial equipment to blast some of that stuff off. I have tried and tried to instruct her on the way to get this done in a more easy and neat manner.

I usually tell Jasmine to go in there and get the tooth brush ready so that she can brush, then potty, and then get into bed. I usually wander into her bathroom about two minutes later to finish her up and check to make sure she did a good job.

This is when I find that that spit has been dribbled all down the side of the sink, tooth paste all smashed into the carpet, and some spittle up and on the toilet since someone thought it would be “so cool” to spit into the toilet since the sink was a little crowded. I really don’t know what to do. Some company needs to come out with some sort of conveyor system that starts from the very beginning of getting the tooth brushes ready and then being the system that facilitates the entire process without making a mess. Knowing my daughter is one of them would go into the process standing on their head and that would throw the whole thing off. I think that she will eventually grow out of it though and maybe I should save for her college instead of tooth brushing machinery. Then again I could take some of that money and invest in a couple of tooth paste companies since most of ours is on the sink instead of her teeth.