Wiggle a loose tooth
The tongue goes back to the same spot all day, there is a faint taste of metal, and the loose tooth rocks without letting go. The pictures below show what to do and what to leave alone, so curiosity has room without tipping over.
♂Boy wiggling a loose tooth
A smiling boy uses his finger to wiggle a loose front tooth.
About this visual support
The tongue returns to the same spot a hundred times a day. A loose tooth is hard to leave alone, and every wiggle brings a small jolt of pain and sometimes the metallic taste of blood. What makes it harder still is that nobody can say when it will come out, and for many children that uncertainty is worse than the discomfort itself.
Visual support makes the sequence understandable in advance rather than in the middle of it. Show the whole chain: the tooth rocks, it loosens, it comes out, there is a little blood, you rinse with water. Once your child has seen the picture of the blood calmly, it is far less frightening when it actually happens. A concrete tip for this particular wait is to let them wiggle with washed fingers at the same point each day, ideally after brushing, so the fiddling has a place of its own instead of running all day. Promise what will happen, never when.
In Routined you can add that small check as a step inside the tooth-brushing routine with a picture and check-off, and test the app for fourteen days at no cost.
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