My son puts finger on his mouth.How to change that habit?

Question

He is 5 years old and he is going to school He puts finger on his mouth only in home and that too when he feels sleepy or when he is alone watching Tv.He has this habit from his birth and moreover he is having congenital heart condition and because of that he underwent 2 surgery.During the period of hospitalisation he felt very comfortable by putting his finger in the mouth and he felt like secured without me(mother).so i also allowed him to put but now he is not leaving that habit.Please help me.

Answer 1

It means he is in the oral stage of development. Just leave him alone, if he needs it he needs it.

Answer 2

Whenever he is free , not doing anything and you see thet he is about to put his finger in his mouth immediately give him a lollypop or something of that kind.He'll be busy in that for sometime and afterwards he'll forget about the finger.

Answer 3

hi my daugher used to do an analogous element. Please do not stick with any ointment. babies oftentimes attempt this to convenience themselves and it truly is completely ok. What i did is to gently eliminate her palms from the mouth everytime i discussed it and firmly yet gently tell her " No dont do this". shop doing that and ultimately the newborn will supply up via himself. do not rigidity the newborn or scare them unecessarilly. My daughter did that for more beneficial or less 3 to 4 months and finally stopped. And it truly is definately not something to positioned a negative ointment interior the newborn's mouth

Answer 4

Try putting something really bitter or really gross on his finger so that the next time he puts it in his finger, it will taste bad so he wont do it anymore.

Answer 5

One child's finger is another child's blanket. It's a security issue. Leave him be. He'll grow out of it eventually.

Answer 6

Please Don't put any CHILI thing on his Finger. Because may be he put his finger in his eye.
use Dry Fruits, Put some Dry Fruit in his Pocket.
you may use Bubblegum.
but Shucking Dry Fruit is good for health.

Answer 7

Loose his pant when he put finger on his mouth his pant slept down,to put his pant up he take finger out of his mouth.Try this.this would help.

Answer 8

don't do any thing rash like put chili on his finger that's child abuse . just every time you see him do it ask him to take it out and so the habit will stop .

Answer 9

put those gloves that doctors use on his hands. cover the gloves with vaseline. Then he won't cause of the taste. Just check because i'm not sure if vaseline is posinious. I don't think it is but just check before you do anything.

Answer 10

if he is ok medically now, use bandaid on his finger for some days so that he will get out of the habit.