My daughter is 5yo and constantly has her thumb in her mouth since she was 3 yo. Her dentist has begged me to make her stop. She has screwed her teeth up so badly already!
I have tried bandaids on the thumbs, duct tape on the thumbs, hot sauce on her thumbs, the stuff called "THUM" that you put on the nail that tastes bad, smacking her hand out of her mouth...I even went so far to tell the poor child that kids who suck their thumbs too much grow up to be UGLY!!! SHE'S STILL SUCKING HER THUMB ALL DAY LONG!!!
I don't want to have to pay the orthodontist to put the appliance in her mouth that pokes her thumb if she sticks it in there, but I'm getting to my wit's end here!
I can't ignore it any longer.
Any tried and true suggestions out there?
2006-09-26
14:20:36
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eyerishiz
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