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A brush only does its job where it actually lands, and since the back, the neck and the backs of the legs are out of sight, the wrong area easily gets all the attention. The pictures below point out one spot at a time.

A girl holds a brush against her shoulder while a marked circle shows the spot to scrub.

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Girl brushing her shoulder

A girl holds a brush against her shoulder while a marked circle shows the spot to scrub.

About this visual support

The hard part about brushing a specific area is that the child rarely sees it. The back, the shoulder blades and the backs of the thighs sit outside the field of vision, and the hand has to guess. More often than not the spot that already feels pleasant gets the most brushing, while the area that actually needed it is barely touched. It only shows up afterwards, when the skin still itches or something is left behind.

A picture that marks exactly where the brush should go replaces guessing with a target. The child sees the spot from the outside, much like in a mirror, and can move the hand there without an adult taking over. Hold the card up beside the mirror while the child brushes, so picture and body are compared in the same glance instead of through instructions from behind. Counting out loud to ten on each area helps too, so every spot gets the same amount of time.

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