wearing braces as a kid and now as an adult - people are going to stare no matter what. sometimes its just from curiosity other times its because they have never encountered a person in braces before. your child is going to be getting her clues about how to react to being in braces by how you are reacting. You make it out to be a hardship and so on then she will feel negatively about it. you look at it as a good thing and a challenge then so will she. Its not the end of the world. Theres no telling how long kids need towear braces some only a matter of a few months and others for years.

One thing that I did when I had to go back into wearing a brace I figured you know what they are going to look and stare so I might as well give people something worth staring at and had a decorative design put into the making of my brace. Now the first thing anyone notices is not the fact that I have the brace for a reason its - look then look again for what is that on there?. Now days kids are in school with many kinds of children some with hearing aids, some with glasses, some with braces and some with crutches and or walkers and still others with crtutches, walkers braces and wheel chairs. in todays world its normal for children to know someone that needs something that will help them see, hear, walk and so on. So she most likely won't have a big problem of bullies. she will problably be asked things like does it hurt and can I try them on and so on. Give her a few humorous lines to say to the few and far between that are ignorant enough to call her metal legs, robot and so on and on the home front deal with this as a good thing not a bum deal and she will be fine.

as for memory I recieved my first braces as a 4 year old and I sure do remember some of that. But what I remember was my sister pretending to rip my clothes in a comedy routine as she opened the velcrow on my braces and at times comedy routines of acting like I farted when my shoes made a sound on the floors or as they were removed.