“We’re all blessed, and it takes a village to raise a family.”
During a conversation with actress Jessica Biel, Kelly Clarkson is sharing the hack she uses to encourage her 9-year-old son Remington to brush his teeth.
During the May 29 episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Clarkson told Biel that there is one daily hygiene task that her son is not a fan of completing. And that’s brushing his teeth.
“He’s gonna hate me saying this. I don’t care because maybe it will shame him into doing it, but he just refuses to brush his teeth, like it's like a thing," Clarkson explained. “And so finally, I was like, ‘Hey, let’s make a fun thing of it.’”
That’s when the mom of two encouraged Remi to brush his teeth in the shower.
“I was in the shower, I’m like, ‘Just take your toothbrush and your toothpaste in the shower. You can be messy,’” Clarkson said, because what 9-year-old boy doesn’t like to be messy.
"So that's what I got him into in the shower,” Clarkson told Biel, who has admitted that she often eats in the shower. “So now he's brushing his teeth!"
Clarkson admitted that she doesn’t “know what it is about boys” when it comes to hygiene. As for her 10-year-old daughter, River Rose, Clarkson said she never had an issue with getting her to partake in good dental care.
“My girl is always like, ‘Oh yeah, of course, I did that.’ Like, I’m an idiot that I asked her," the mom said.
“And then my son, he’s just like, ‘Yeah, I totally did.’ And I’m like, ‘You’re lying. Let me smell your breath.’”
But if you asked Biel, it’s just being smart with your time, multitasking in the shower.
“I know this sounds disgusting,” the actress said, admitting she finds it disgusting as well, but “this is called trying to get to drop off of time and just needing to do everything at once, because I didn’t wake up early enough or something happened.”
However, she does have a line. Biel said that while she often drinks her coffee in the shower, “I don’t really do sandwiches.”
“Bread is not my thing in the shower,” she continued, neither is steak, but she will eat a yogurt or cereal.
