OH GOD!! Not the Dentist!

If you've known me for awhile you will know that my kids, well actually just Corey but Ally follows his lead is deathly afraid of the dentist. This last night I did research and found a great kids dentist, all kinds of toys, video games and even cartoons playing on ceiling tv's so they can watch while in the chair. We put Corey first and he was not having it, kicked screamed you name it. So we thought ok, we will have Ally sit there and if she can do it a big boy like Corey can do it. Nope backfired and to make it worse Ally bit the dental assistant. They took us from the open kids room to a back consult room because they said MY kids were scaring all the other kids. We get back there and Corey still will not cooperate and continue to cry and scream and it ends up being at least 4 people holding him down with me at the head so he knows its ok. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.

I guess I really just don't know how to deal with this kind of fear. I mean as a child I was scared of things but was always just pushed to do it. And I guess even as a child I had that person in my head telling me I had to be perfect everyone is watching so crying and screaming was never an option.

Did I mention that last dentist appointment was one of the worst experiences of my life, so here we are over a year later, I KNOW BAD BAD MOMMY, but it was seriously awful and I needed to make sure I could get an appointment where Kevin could go because no way was I doing this alone. I have YET to tell them they are going to the dentist, I'm too afraid of having to drag them in from the car WHICH I HAVE DONE AT PRIOR APPOINTMENTS. I'm thinking I'm going to take them out to breakfast and BUTTER them up with some smiley face pancakes, well smiley face for Ally and and plain only circle nothing else on the plate for Corey. LOL

Wish us luck.