child eating boggies . how do you make them stop?

Question

i have a friend , her son eats boggies , she was asking how to get him to stop ?

Answer 1

Every time she catches him picking his nose make him wash his hands and talk to him about how unsanitary it is. After having to stop playing to wash his hands 20 times a day he'll get tired of doing it and stop. It will take a couple of day but it will work

Answer 2

You can't stop a behavior, you have to replace it with another. Buy a cute box of tissues (they have cartoon characters on the boxes now). Redirect the behavior, when he picks his nose, send him to the tissues. Encourage blowing the nose and cheer when you toss the mess into the trash. Have the rest of the family do the same and make a big deal of "big people know how to use tissues". My toddler graduated from the tissues and now just runs to the bathroom and grabs toilet tissue to handle stuffy noses. It works!

Answer 3

do not tease the child. kids dont need anymore slack than they already get from other kids. thats a terrible suggestion!

but how old are they? if there like, 3 or older, then u can explain things to them. in a way that they will understand, explain to them exactly what they are eating, that it is yucky slime, and has all kinds of icky things in it, and that is why they are supposed to blow it in a tissue, like big people do. get a tissue, and say, do you want to be like the big kids and adults and blow your nose instead? just like they do? ill show you! then show them and get them to do it, and then say "wow! what a clever girl/boy!" encourage good behavior. if u catch em doing it repetedly still, remind them of what u taugh them, and make sure they have tissues within easy reach.

they will grow out of it, they just need to be reminded that its icky and a tissue is where its at. lol

Answer 4

put something bitter and/or nasty tasting on their fingers. After a few times, they'll stop eating boogies.

Answer 5

I told my little girl that it was yucky and mummy couldn't kiss her anymore if she kept putting yucky things in her mouth and she stopped doing it.........i think or at least she doesn't do it in front of me anyway

Answer 6

Put jalapeno on there fingers that way the finger is spicy and they won't want to do it anymore.

Answer 7

When they do it, smack their hand and say "NO" or maybe she could make fun of them a little, tease them about it so they are embarassed and stop.

Answer 8

eewww that's gross. tell her to teach him how to blown his nose then he wouldn't have boogies to eat

Answer 9

consult ur doctor

Answer 10

poison their boogies