I'm at my wit's end here and I figure I'm in the right place, I
mean, you're pretty much most of you parents, right? And I know
you have opinions. So please, please, share yours with me
now. This post
of Stefania's about the world's worst sounds has got me thinking.
I know, I know, she's all about the "poo-splosion" and certainly the
whining, and I have to give her those, but I gotta tell you, I think my
three-year old is going to drive me to drink, or to get gray hairs, to
to an early grave. Wait! Two out of three already!
See??
He grinds his teeth. Oh, yeah, sounds like nothing,
right? Phhhht. Except this has been going on even since
he's had teeth, which thankfully came late in his case so we're
only talking about over a year now, but ever since he had two little
enamel grinders that matched up top and bottom, he
grinds.them.incessantly. And? They're wearing down, of
course. Which means that someday he'll be in a dentist's chair
getting caps or something, or a root canal (on his front teeth!),
because at the rate he's going those little suckers are gonna be
stubs. Before he hits first grade.
Yeah, I talked to his speech therapist and his occupational
therapist, and they
suggested a plastic chewie toy, which his older sister covets mightily,
being very oral, but he of course will have nothing to do with
it. And why would he? Why stick a very lose-able piece of
plastic in his mouth when he's got nice handy little organic things
right in there, already built in?
So...anybody here ever dealt
with this? What did you do? Aside from, maybe, propping his
mouth open somehow with duct tape?
