I need help with this one everyone...My 7 year-old son bites, well, EATS his fingernails most of the day. He has been doing this since he was 4 years old, and it has come to the point where he hardly has any nail left not to mention that his skin is discolored because of it. He is very aware that I do not condone it, so now he sneaks and does it, but still, I catch him (he has yet to figure out that mothers have eyes in the back of their heads). I have tried the stinky polish stuff, the reward system, putting bandages on his hands, tried to convince him that it's NASTY, taking him to the doctor, and well, just getting plain angry because it disgusts me (I am very germ conscious). Let me just give you all a heads-up...hot stuff will not work because he LOVES spicy foods. He would eat hot cheetos for breakfast if I allowed it. What advice do you all have for me?
2006-12-04 15:55:03 · 8 answers · asked by nicsmom1999 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Show him what is under the nail (microscope needed). It is one of the dirtiest places on the body. It is dirtier than a humans AS_HO_E !!! Ask him if he would lick that. That outta give him some perspective to think about.
2006-12-04 15:58:30 · answer #1 · answered by wandering_canuck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely, My brother has an electric powered guitar and that i consistently sneak round and play it. I absolutely have that similar habit too. What i'd do is clarify to the instructor that you obtain in an coincidence and that it purely damaged your finger nails or perhaps if they did get slightly extra efficient and in case you do not imagine that is reliable adequate and that the instructor might want to no longer be that understanding because I absolutely have a technological information instructor and no one might want to be so effective about her. then what you may want to do is with the aid of faux nails that are not designed each so often the dollar save sales them and use quite reliable clue like positioned lots on them and carry them on quite lengthy and reliable so as that once you do play the guitar they received't fall off.
2016-11-23 17:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walgreen and some other stores sells clear nails polish that has a bad taste to them.This nail polish keep you from biting your nails.
2006-12-04 16:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by coldice8 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called bite-no-more. clear nail polish that tastes horrible. grocery stores sell it.
or give him a pair of small nail clippers and put it on his house key. he'll always have them and it might keep his fingers out of his mouth. so there's no excuses to bite them.
2006-12-04 16:17:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make him chew them when he is not in the mood too. Tell him if he is going to do it he has to do it whenever you ask. As with the smoking habit, if you have to do it other than when you want to it will be no fun and he will quit.
2006-12-04 16:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by ambi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm, how about something else to chew like bubble gum? cant chew your nails and bubble gum at the same time right? :)
2006-12-04 16:04:46 · answer #6 · answered by philosopher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get that stuff you put on nails so it tastes bad.
2006-12-04 15:57:40 · answer #7 · answered by Franny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try squeezing jalepeno juice on his fingers while he's sleep
2006-12-04 16:22:45 · answer #8 · answered by Sweetheart88 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋