Hello all, need advice here. KGA (2.3) is picking her nose any chance she gets. Bored pick, happy pick, sad pick, mad pick, in the car pick, at estrogenville (target) pick, resting in her room pick, in her stroller at the mall PICK..... How do i either accept this or correct it? Any advice or anecdotes are greatly appreciated. What did you do or what would you do?
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Kevin
Tabasco on the fingertips?
Just kidding.
We had a bit of the same problem and just explained everytime that it wasn't nice or polite and that he needed to use a tissue. Now we go through about a box of kleenex every other day, but he's stopped digging unless it's a good nose clogger.
It kinda depends on how your kid responds to behavior/comportment suggestions. We have one major digger who is completely impervious to all attempts to modify the nose picking behavior. As soon as it started, we took to calling the picked product "nose poop" in an effort to get her to stop going straight from nose to mouth...no luck. If anything, it got worse since she knows we think it's really gross...so we've arrived at a cease-fire where I don't tell her to stop, but I do make her go wash her hands every time I see her doing it. At the end of the day, my only real concern about it is that it could easily become something that other kids tease her about mercilessly...while that might stop it, it sucks to be teased.
At worst, I figure someday she'll want a boyfriend and will stop... :-)
I am, however, very proud of my dainty waif of a 6 year old who belches like a champ at the dinner table!
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Is what my three year old says, or other times he will ask to do it. Telling him no doesn't work so my wife sage him a song "don't don't don't pick your nose" sung to the tune shaky your booty. It works sometimes, but usually his finger is up his nose when he is singing it.
That once the finger goes up the nose, nasal snacking doesnt happen right after! Give it time, a lot of time, especially if she goes to preschool where nasal snacking is a pre K Olympic event!
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She did the nose to mouth transfer of chunks! My wife caught her doing it.
So my loving caring schmoopie looks at me with the most serious face and says" It comes from your side of the family, this nose picking thing and all the burping and farting too"
What could I say, so I said what came into my head "I do all these things on a regular basis, BUT I DON'T EAT NOSE ROCKS "
I caught her at the perfect time she was drinking water......... and she laughed it right out of her nose everywhere .... Then I said "My side of the family huh" I showed her... hehehehehehehehe
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