do you brush teeth/face or eat breakfast first in the morning?

[Anonymous]

i brush my kids teeth/face after they get out of the bed, then send them down for breakfast.

however, out of blue this morning my pre-K boy said to me "you eat breakfast then brush teeth," and said his teacher Mrs. Brown said so.

i'm from another country and that's how my family did it. i'm curious if most/many American families do it the other way around.

tks!

[Anonymous]

It's funny because we definitely eat first then brush teeth (to keep the teeth cleaner in the morning) but I noticed in some posts about how to get kids out the door that a bunch of people seemed to do it the way you do

[Anonymous]

We brush first so our food tastes better.

[Anonymous]

Eat first, then shower/brush teeth. I've been doing it this way for 20+ years. No clue if it's right or wrong, though.

I brush my son's teeth in the morning and he doesn't eat breakfast until he gets to day care. If he ate breakfast at home, I'd brush after breakfast. I hate the taste of food right after brushing teeth, for one. Wouldn't want to make him deal with that.

[Anonymous]

Brush teeth first - immediately upon getting up, actually.

It would totally gross me out to eat breakfast without brushing my teeth first. Blech!!

[Anonymous]

Kids eat first, then brush and wash.

I brush, wash and then head to work, where I eat breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Brushing teeth is the very first thing I do when I wake up. Brush again after breakfast.

DC eats first then brushes teeth.

[Anonymous]

This is a stupid post. Are you also the author or the grocery store post?

Get a life.

[Anonymous]

For the kids, I think of brushing the teeth in the morning as getting the breakfast food off them so they don't get cavities. So, brushing after breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Brush first, for myself and DD. I don't want the food from breakfast interacting with the plaque on my (and her) teeth and causing cavities. But DH eats first, so to each his own.

[Anonymous]

I grew up brushing my teeth first (parents from another country). My parents brush their teeth first, then have breakfast.

Now, I eat breakfast first, then brush. Same for DD. I do rinse my mouth out before breakfast though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brush teeth first - immediately upon getting up, actually.

It would totally gross me out to eat breakfast without brushing my teeth first. Blech!!

It would totally gross me out to eat breakfast right after brushing teeth... that taste would be horrendous. Mint flavored cereal, anyone?

We brush our teeth afterward. That way we leave the house with clean teeth and fresh breath.

[Anonymous]

I brush teeth then have coffee asap; kids brush and then eat. I was raised to brush teeth first but my DC also recently announced that it was the wrong order so maybe they are teaching that in public schools now.

[Anonymous]

I can sort of see brushing your teeth first if then brush again after you eat breakfast. But it sounds like a lot of people only brush once and it's before breakfast. Doesn't that leave your breakfast food in your teeth all day, plus coffee breath? I don't get it. . .

[Anonymous]

I always thought the point of brushing your teeth was to get food remnants off so they can't just sit there and rot on your teeth. So assuming that you brush your teeth before you go to bed, why would you then brush again immediately after getting up? Wouldn't your teeth be clean at at point? But eating breakfast gets food on your teeth, so it is again necessary to brush, right? Otherwise, unless you brush twice each morning (and who has time for that in the AM rush), you'll have breakfast food on your teeth all the way though lunch (unless you don't brush after lunch, at which point you have gone with milk or whatever you ate for breakfast on your teeth all day long!)