Keeping teeth tip top!

With my kids I would brush their teeth with the toothpaste and let them brush their teeth while rinsing with water. This worked great with my eldest and youngest. But my middle one was a total pain this method worked until she was about 18 months old then she decided she wanted to do it all herself and everytime i tried to brush her teeth she would clamp her mouth shut and throw a tantrum, occasionally I would be able to do them but mostly she did them herself it was the only way they got done. It was only when she was 3 and after the dentist told her that she had to let mummy clean her teeth that she let me do them again. But after over a year of her teeth not being cleaned properly the damage was done and she had some erosion along the gum line on her 6 front top teeth and in the last year she has had 4 fillings in her baby teeth and a dental absess that needed 2 separate courses of antibiotics to clear it up.