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.
Within the realm of evolutionary biology, the Principle of Parsimony actually takes on a special meaning. To determine the phylogeny of a newly discovered species, the phylogenetic tree with the fewest branches is most likely the correct relationship between all of the species in the tree.n other words, when making a hypothesis about something, it is probably not a convoluted and complicated relationship that is causing the problem. In evolution, the Principle of Parsimony is very important for scientists working on the phylogeny of a species.