Do you know oral health care for your child is extremely important? Children should brush their teeth at least twice a day. It is also important to make sure you change your child’s toothbrush at least every 3 months, unless you notice the bristles are starting to show wear, and then you would want to replace it sooner.

Do you know why it is important to change your toothbrush every 3 months? Because, like everything else, toothbrushes simply wear out and become less effective, and the worn bristles make great breeding grounds for germs, bacteria, and fungus.

Colgate Kids offers some fun products to keep children excited about brushing their teeth. I know with Gillian, she likes having her own toothpaste, and a fun toothbrush. Colgate just came out with a new product line for the kids, one of Gillian’s favorites the Littlest Pet Shop line.

Some Colgate Kids products include:

My First Colgate Toothbrush and My First Colgate Infant & Toddler Toothpaste is, recommended for ages 0-2. My First Colgate Toothbrush retails from $2.49, and comes in three different colors.  My First Colgate Infant & Toddler Toothpaste is fluoride free, and safe if swallowed, it retails for $3.49 and comes in a mild fruity flavor.

Colgate Kids My World Toothbrush is recommended for ages 2+, and is designed to allow small children to do it themselves, they come in three different colors, and the twin pack retails for $2.00.

Colgate Licensed Kids is recommended for ages 2 – 8. This line offers, Dora the Explorer, Spongebob Squarepants, Bakugan, and now The Littlest Pet Shop characters. Each character line includes anti-cavity fluoride toothpaste, a battery powered toothbrush and a manual toothbrush. The Colgate Licensed Kids Anti-Cavity Fluoride Toothpaste retails for $2.79, the Colgate Licensed Kids Manual Toothbrush retails for $2.49 for a single pack or $3.99 for the twin pack.  The Colgate Kids Characters Battery-Powered Toothbrush retails for $5.99.

Colgate Pop Stars Anti-Cavity Toothpaste and Colgate Kids 2in1 Anti-Cavity Fluoride Toothpaste is recommended for ages 8-12 and they both retail for $3.29.

On top of all the great products, Colgate has to offer for oral care, they also have a program called Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures. This program has reached over 46 million children in 80 countries! This program is to help promote the importance of oral health through proper education and prevention. In the U.S alone, this program has reached millions of children.

What I Thought:

I am excited that Colgate has finally came out with the Littlest Pet Shop Line, as you can tell Gillian is huge into Littlest Pet Shops. With being the main shopper in the home, I have always purchased Colgate products for our oral health needs. I love the range of products Colgate offers one of my favorite for the adults is the mouth wash. I will continue to purchase Colgate products for my family.

Colgate products would make a great stocking stuffer, with having to change toothbrushes once every 3 months you cannot go wrong by purchasing the Colgate line for your child’s stockings.

Connect With Colgate Kids:

Website: http://www.colgate.com/app/Kids-World/US/Kids-Products.cvsp

Play Games:  http://www.colgate.com/app/Kids-World/US/Games-And-Activities.cvsp

Parents Sections: Information about Infants and Children Oral and Dental Health.

Disclaimer: We received The Littlest Pet Shop toothbrush and toothpaste to feature in this years Holiday Gift Guide. No other form of payment was received.

Look at this little guy isn’t he so cute. Since Gillian, LOVES her some littlest pets, we try to get all the mail in ones. Whew that’s a ton of work making sure she get’s them all… Well Hasbro decided to change up the stickers on me… Ugh shame on you Hasbro.

With it being Easter she finally got her last 3 stickers she needed to send away for this adorable littlest pet. Like she needs any more for me to hurt my feet on, but hasbro littlest pets are her thing. So, I won’t fuss to much at her.

If you have not sent off for your Platypus, do not worry you still have time.

Not sure how this all works? First, you have to purchase a “My Collector Journal” Then comes the fun part, you get to purchase all those cute little pets, that will make your child go awe, and tell you how much you are the best, and how much they love ya. Mine even tells me how it was the best day ever. Those type of things make my heart melt and make me want to buy her more…. Maybe, just maybe that’s why she does it. She done out smarted mom.

You are looking for Littlest Pets with this sticker on it. Those will insure you get the proper sticker to return the sticker page to get your newest pet. You need to collect 8 of these stickers. Afterwords, you fill out the form with the stickers attached and send it off to the address found in your Journal.

This must be postmarked by July 31, 2010 and Hasbro must receive it by August 10, 2010. Please allow 8 to 10 weeks to receive this in the mail. Also, remember this is a while supplies last. Good Luck hope you all get to get your platypus I will be sending off for ours tomorrow.

Also for a limited time you can sign up for a free trial to the LPSO.com website.

My daughter is a huge fan of your littlest pets. Being a mommy of one child I tend to overly spoil her. That’s a good thing for you and your company. As you can tell from HERE she has a tad more then several. When we counted there was 132 since I have purchased her close to 10 more. She is wanting the Special Edition Elephant. And I am happy to inform all tomorrow we will be sending off for the Elephant.

So now here is my complaint. With close to 150 littlest pets that is about 300+ little rubber bands. Do you know how annoying it is trying to take teeny tiny little rubber bands from the necks of these adorable littlest pets. It is beyond annoying. So I ask when you are packaging these cute little pets for the enjoyment of the littlest pet fan base, please, please think about their parents fingers.

Thank you for your consideration in my hurting fingers…

As you all may remember this past spring Hasbro had the Special Edition Koala. The only way you could receive this beautiful littlest pet was through the mail. Unless you wanted to pay a ton from ebay. Since I am a sucker for my dear daughter I made sure she got the Koala. You can read about it here.

Now Hasbro is at it again. They have a special edition elephant and the only way to get him is through the mail. So mom is at it again and we only have 2 more stickers to go until we can send off for this cute baby elephant.

Here is how it works. First you have to buy a Littlest Pet Journal and it comes with a littlest pet. In the back of this journal you will see the sticker page. You will need to tear this page out and put it in a safe place so once you get a new sticker you can add it to the page. Once you have all six stickers filled in on the page you can send it off to Hasbro.

This offer expires December 31, 2009. Delivery of this little guy will take 10 to 12 weeks. There is a limited number and I believe like the Koala it is based on first serve basis. So hurry hurry make sure your little pet shop lover gets this limited edition elephant.

This picture does not do her pets justice. I counted all the ones she has on our bed and the total was 132. I know she has more around here some where. She likes to miss place them.

She literately has a small duffel bag plum full that she keeps her pets in. And she will play for hours with these small critters. One thing about being the only child is she does not lack an imagination.