When your child starts to lose his or her baby teeth, reinforce the importance of proper dental care. For example: 1  Remind your child to brush his or her teeth at least twice a day. 2  Supervise and offer assistance as needed. 3  Help your child floss his or her teeth daily. 4  Eat a healthy diet and limit between-meal snacks.
1 Unusual or excessive frugality; extreme economy or stinginess. 2  Adoption of the simplest assumption in the formulation of a theory or in the interpretation of data, especially in accordance with the rule of Ockham's razor.
(by extension) The principle of using the least resources or explanations to solve a problem. Great reluctance to spend money unnecessarily. 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Parsimony, and not industry, is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry, indeed, provides the subject which parsimony accumulates.