Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for April 12, 2024

From Not Always Right: Dentists Are Expensive; Establish Good Habits Early!

My husband and I are going out for a date, so my in-laws are babysitting for us. When they get to our house I go over our two-year-old’s bedtime routine. I show them where we keep her toothbrush and flossers.

Father-In-Law: “You brush her teeth? Why? She’s only two.”

Me: “Because she has teeth.”

NOT my story

You guys know the drill.

The kids are thinking "Which one of us will be the first to get the “chair”!

It’s best if you three don’t.

They’re both going to face Dentist the Menace.

I feel just like them when I’m going to the dentist, even if it’s just for a cleaning…and I’m 78!

Boy, are THEY ever gonna have a great day at school!!

Wow! She just dropped the d-word just like that?! No mercy at all!

I’m lucky to have had good dentists, but even with that, it’s still dang uncomfortable having someone dig around in there!

Just think of the alternative of NOT going to a dentist and not taking care of your teeth.

Talk about a way to ruin the day! I’m fine with the dentist now, but at Hammie’s age…uff da! It was a huge bummer.

As long as he’s not played by Steve Martin!

who puts an 10 and 8 year old (assuming the kids ages here) in car seats?

Zoe and Hammie don’t dread the Bill, they dread the Drill.

Hammie and Zoe are still in car seats? How long does that last these days?

“What did you do before you became a dentist?”

“Why, I was a butcher !”

from 1943 Three Stooges short

I don’t ever remember dreading the dentist. My Mother (born in 1915) was a wonderful woman who could have written much better books on raising children than that quack Dr. Spock! I am the 6th of 7 – She had a lot of practice!

“Repeat it back to me” is a very good tactic to make sure the kids listened. Speaking as a kid who had to repeat things back because otherwise whatever was said was gone forever.

They’re too little to have dentist dread.

PSA: prescription flouride toothpaste saved my mouth…worth checking into!

I’m with you Hammie.

Find out why the inside of your mouth is black.

I’ve been told, my first trip to a dentist, I bit him. Mom said they had to find a new one, because he didn’t want me back.

Always figured dentist was better than a gynecologist, could see where there hands were…

I like going to the dentist. It’s relaxing. I get to lie back and let someone else worry about stuff for a while. Sure, I might find out I have a cavity and have to schedule a filling at the end of it, but that’s a problem for me-in-half-an-hour, not me-right-now. While I’m having my teeth cleaned, I can’t check email, answer the phone, or do anything else. It’s peace and quiet. :-)