Lately my daughter has been asking me a lot of questions that seem designed to get me to floss more. A few days ago, she asked if the enamel on our bathtub was the same stuff we had on our teeth. Today she asked what a toothache looks like.
I suppose this entry should really be titled, “Why did our daughter ask me how many shots she would need to go to Botswana?”, because that’s what my husband actually said when he came back downstairs after putting our 4 year old to bed last night.
One night as she was splashing around in her bright pink bath water my four-year-old asked me what the tub was made of. As it turns out, the bathtub she uses is one of those old timey clawfoot jobs made of cast iron with a porcelain enamel coating. When I told her this, she immediately perked up and asked: “Is the enamel on our bathtub the same stuff that’s on my teeth?”
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