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I'm an old dog that needs to learn a new trick on handling a loose tooth in the classroom. :o) What do you do with students that have a loose tooth and proceed to wiggle it.all.day.long. Fingers in their mouth, can't do their work, telling me it hurts. Pretty soon everyone else that has a tooth that is even slightly loose is wiggling theirs too. It drives me nuts. What do you do or say to them? Thanks
patience! At every elementary I've ever worked at the school nurse had little plastic tooth necklaces for them to put teeth in after she pulled them for them. When kids complain, I send them to the nurse to get it pulled. Sometimes I let them dampen a paper towel and chew on it, or even have given them a plastic straw. It's part of the age they are, and they...See More
Dec 20, 2013
hailey I guess you have kinders or first grade... I tell them I'm sorry but I'm not a dentist and can't help with their teeth. They need to tell caretaker at home what is going on and let them handle it. As far as fingers in mouth and not doing work I would just develop some little signal with them that says "hands away from your mouth and let's get your ...See More
Aug 10, 2013


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