Don't infect your child with YOUR toothdecay

We all do it- In an effort to wean toddlers off the bottle we try to encourage them to eat real food. There is more to tooth decay than badgering kids to brush and floss. Tooth decay is caused by a bacteria that is more easily passed from a Mom than a Dad (not sure about Granddads...)

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The bacteria behind tooth decay is called mutans streptococcus

Tooth decay begins with a group of germs called mutans streptococcus. "The bacteria feed on sugar and produce acid that eats away at the structure of teeth by depleting calcium," explains Parents advisor Burton Edelstein, D.D.S., founding director of the Children's Dental Health Project. The bacteria also create plaque -- a yellowish film that builds up on teeth and contains even more enamel-eroding acid. Once an area without calcium becomes big enough, the surface of the tooth collapses, and that's a cavity.

Source: http://www.parents.com/baby/health/teething/cavities/

Tooth decay is:

Caused by a bacteria

Spreads easily between family members

Can last a lifetime

"it's more common among young children than any other chronic illness, including asthma and diabetes."

My daughter found this article on parents.com, it was news to me and felt I should pass it on to my readers here.

The article goes on to say:

Babies are born without any of these harmful bacteria in their mouth, and studies have proven that moms (rather than dads) typically infect their children before age 2.

It happens when you transfer your saliva into your child's mouth -- by repeatedly eating from the same spoon as your baby, for example, or letting your toddler brush his teeth with your toothbrush.

More stuff I didn't know is that 80% of cavities happen in just 25% of children.
Cavities have more to do with this family passed bacteria than they do with kids not brushing their teeth (and it's NOT because they have faulty tooth enamel or 'soft teeth')

Moral of this story?

Do NOT feed your toddler from food YOU ate off of.
Don't even use the same spoon!

I just got used to the fact that when I go outside to smoke a cigarette, I have to wash my hands to keep the noxious fumes from getting all over my granddaughters toys, I have to wash my face before I pick her up to kiss her and now I've got to brush my teeth more?

Geez, I've got to quit smoking... this is too much work.

Watching my granddaughter is the most fun I've had in 2 dozen years!



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Shoulda checked the domain name first

I've not posted to this blog in over a month, partly because of the holidays and partly because I failed to do my market research before choosing the blogs name.

Someone already grabbed Grand daddy day care dot com and I can't get it.

I may change the title of this blog... not sure yet.

Baby Boomer Day Care?

nah, sounds like a senior citizen day care.

How about Granddaddybabysits?

I'll think of something



I do have quite a few articles to post... will do so

Happy New Year!!! forgot to say that.





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Back in the day, what day would that be?

It's amazing to see my grand daughter play with educational toys the way they were designed to be played with.

She loves the "VTech Smile Baby System"... WTH? is that what I didn't do when I was a young parent? I failed to get my kids "Systems".







Damn, life woulda sure been easier if I'd only gotten my children a System!

Seriously, the electronic flashing, sqweaking, wiggleing brightly colored toys really do grab and keep her attention. She loves that teddy bear.









granddad granddaddy parent "grand parent" "grand daddy" "Grand Daddy Day Care"



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Back in MY day... Dr Brown's baby bottles?

I'm loving life... I get to take care of my precious grand baby and I do NOT have to deal with any of the downside of being a parent.

When I was a young parent we didn't have all the fancy time saving gadgetry that my grand daughter has at her beck and call:





Back in My Day, the tried and true baby bottle, you know, the one that when baby was finished eating you had to burp them?, the old standby had a single challenger:

The Playtex whatever they called it, it had a plastic bag inside the bottle, the theory being that the breast milk being inside the bag would tend to cut down on baby swallowing air, hence need to burp.

My daughter has found these gizzmo baby bottles and they work better than the Playtex thingies from 25 years ago:

Dr. Brown's baby bottle system... ok so THAT'S what we did wrong in the 80's... we failed to comprehend that what we NEEDED was a 'system'...

Ok,I get it now:












For the rest of these pics you can just go here (on Yahoo's Flickr)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/localgoogleguru/sets/72157609594084241/

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Hillarious videos

Enjoy these hilarious videos while I write something useful... it's hard to be a writer or type with one hand... holding my grand daughter with the other while she grabs at the cables coming out of the computer...

When do you ween the toddler you're taking care of off of milk?

What babies are really thinking!

Laughing Baby





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Extended Family, I never had that.

I'm a new Grand Dad so I'm in unfamiliar territory.

I never had the benefit of having extended family. Now I AM the extended family...
and I'm loving it.

Now I can enjoy my grand baby with out the stress.
Now I can teach my grand baby stuff secure in the knowledge that I've got 30 plus years of experience in what IS a good idea to teach a toddler and what ISN'T a good idea to teach a toddler!

Wow, 30 years of experience... I've gotten pretty good at this parenting stuff after all. I definitely know what NOT to do. I'm an expert in what NOT to do.

That fact alone is very comforting.

Neuro Linguistic Programming and Parenting

Neuro Linguistic Programming or N.L.P. is... how shall I describe it, to say it's hypnosis is a misnomer. It's the basis of Anthony Robbins work, and without going into all kinds of 'structure of subjective experience' techy talk, let's just say there is such a thing as: Dissociation

Dissociation as a Grand Parent?

In NLP if you're wanting to improve your personal experience of something, or wanting to reduce the effect of your reaction to a past event so it will have less impact on your present affairs, NLP offers this 'dissociation' as a tool to effect said change.

Wow, a mouthful, what's that got to do with being a Grand Parent?

When I was a young father, I was so caught up in relationship crap (ex cheated on me), office politics, so caught up in: "How am I going to pay this months rent" that it detracted from my 'being there' for my children.

The Lights were On, No One Was Home

Be Here Now... my body was in the room, but "I" wasn't really present when my kids were toddlers. Instead of being a functional parent, I was a dysfunctional jealous love addict (you get the picture)

To heal a memory like that, to remove or lessen the full force of shame, NLP offers this process as a tool:

Imagine your life is a movie. You however are sitting front row at a movie theater watching the movie of your being portrayed in the movie.

When I was a stressed out parent, I was 'up there' IN the movie

Now I'm sitting in the audience watching the events as a spectator, and not so caught up in the melodrama that I can not function effectively.


Fast forward to today:

I can 'parent' my Grand Baby and I'm 'there' but don't have to deal with everything 'there'

Now, this go around, I'm able to focus on my grand baby and not be distracted by 'how am I gonna pay for this, and pay for that, and why isn't she home yet, and why am I picking up the baby when she got off already...'

Dissociated from the day to day crap and now fully in the moment.

My Grand baby's eye's LIGHT UP when I find something to teach her!

It's now a game she recognizes... I pick her up and we walk towards... something catches her attention, she KNOWS that if she leans toward X, Y or Z, Grand Daddy will let her hover over what ever it is until she's bored with it.

She is so inquisitive, I love being there for her.

and I really love that I don't have to worry about who is going to do all this dirty laundry, or take the trash out (it's not my job!)
My Job is to love my Grand Baby.

More later



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