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[quote=Anonymous]In terms of where to buy masks, I would actually buy a few different types and see what she likes best. Since you have to try things out for a bit, I'd look for cheap masks and then you can upgrade to nicer fabric or higher quality once you know what she likes. Definitely get some of the accordion style from Old Navy, as they are so easy to get and inexpensive (so if she likes them, you're golden). We've also bought some from Maisonette (the size is really good for very small toddler faces) and I've picked some up from checkout lines at CVS and Whole Foods.

As for transitioning your kid to wearing it, I'd start very small and make it a game. What I would do is start with short time periods (say 5-10 minutes) and say "Ok, lets practice wearing our mask for 5 minutes to see if we can do it!" And then give her some kind of prize for doing it. Don't push too hard at first and keep it light.

Then once she could keep it on for 10-15 minutes consistently, I started taking her indoors places and making your time in that place conditional on her wearing her mask. So I'd say "Ok, we're going to go in the grocery store and buy those granola bars you like! But remember we have to wear our masks inside, so if you take yours off, we have to leave even if we don't have the granola bars yet, ok? So lets try to keep them on!" Again, keep it light, no punishing but just explaining that the consequence of taking off her mask is that you have to leave that location since we have to wear masks inside to be safe (it doesn't matter if you really believe this or if she's been inside places without masks before -- it's really important that she thinks about it this way if she is required to wear it at school). Then you just keep stretching it out. It took about a month before I could comfortably take her pretty much anywhere and trust she'd wear the mask the whole time. Yours is a bit younger so it might take longer, but you should be able to get her relatively comfortable and then her PK will just need to reinforce it in the fall. If they are requiring masks for all 2 year olds, trust me that they are used to doing so as the mask wearing ability varies greatly at that age. But by 2.5 or 3, they are actually more compliant than most adults.[/quote]

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