Train tracks
Kids can be cruel. Even if you believe your child is the purest of all angels, children in general are mean to kids that are or have something different. Now, I am only talking about braces, but it still apply’s today just like it did 20 years ago for me. Anyone that has had braces at one point has been made the brunt of a joke.
Recently, I have seen a change. So, what changed in 20 years? Today braces are a fun, neat things that no one cares about anymore. Did making fun of the kids get old? Or, is it because it is so common that no one really cares? Sure, a child looks silly with a set of new spiffy, shiny tracks on their bony looking grill, but honestly after a few days, it is as if the braces have always been there.
Mr C has had his braces on now for a little over a month and the only thing his friends are moaning about - the color of his bands on the brackets. They want him to get bright yellow, maybe green, the girls want him to get hot pink. I mean braces have become a fashion statement since my day of, “Do you want the metal look, or, well, the metal look?”
This week was a checkup for him. We went in and as usual he goes back for the checkup on his own and 30 minutes later here he comes with a mouth full of limeade. OMG! He had color all over. Yellow, green, pink. He had every color his friends asked for. His mouth was so bright that I guarantee if he slept with his mouth open, he would light up his room at night. WOW!
I have tried taking a picture of his glow-in-the-dark mouth, but he has not been very cooperative. He is NOT a picture taker at all, even if it is just his mouth. I can’t really get one at night while he is asleep either, since he has a loft bed taller then me, but I will continue with my effort. It is a sight to see!
TTFN ~
July 31st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh my oldest loves color changing…green though looks like brocoli stuck in there…yellow turn white after a while, ew…right now she has BRIGHT blue! I love the GITDark brights.
Luckily so many kids now a days have them and so far my dd hasn’t been teased much.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am
My daughter has braces and I was a little taken aback when she came home with the green bands around her brackets. I thought when I had braces we used to avoid having green stuff in our teeth. Funny story, I had braces and felt like it was horrible that I had to have them. My best friend didn’t have braces but felt left out. As soon as she was grown up and could afford it she got braces and told me how horrible it was for her to not be one of the kids to have braces in our youth. I guess the grass is always greener.