My six year old daughter has sucked her thumb since she was in the womb. She never took a pacifier. I've never had much problem with this, I think its kinda natural. however, she's getting a little old to be sucking her thumb. We've tried putting bandaids on her thumbs (she takes them off or sucks with them on anyway), tried the nasty tasting stuff and hot sauce (does not deter her in the least) but now its reaching "critical stages". Her thumbs are always nasty, like how your feet are after swimming all day. I'm also afraid she'll have buck-teeth.
When I got home from work yesterday, I had to tell her 6 times in less than ten minutes to get her thumb out of her mouth. I don't want to be mean, I know this is self-soothing, but good grief, she's too old to be doing that. I've tried to reward her, I don't know what else to do. Now, I'm threatening to spank her if I see it in her mouth (an empty threat by the way), and it STILL won't work. I thought she would grow out of it
2007-06-30
04:32:11
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Starla C
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