HowboutthemCowboys Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 You have his entire youth sporting career to put unreasonable amounts of pressure on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryTheRock Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 My daughter sucked her thumb until she was 6 (we tried a mitten/sock on her hand at night, duct taped it on so she could not remove it she just chewed through to free her thumb, hot sauce- she now loves the stuff, Bitter did not work as she just sucked it off eventually. Finally we got her to stop by promising to pierce her ears...) She is now 8 and I have spent $1,500 at the orthodontist already. As Atomic stated, the thumb actually caused the teeth to move. She also had trouble saying certain sounds. That went away very quickly as my wife who is a special ed teacher worked with her. My 3 year old son sucks his thumb too, he uses a blankie which stimulates his thumb sucking. He turns four this month and "blue blankie" is being retired and hopefully thumb sucking will too. If your son has a stimulas try removing it. (my daughter would rub her arm so we could not remove her stimulas) Otherwise use the reward. I have a kid who just turned four and he has this thumb problem you speak of as well as his "Manx" which is what he has called his blanket since he could. The thing is falling apart BAD. I think I'm going to cut it in half and then make it smaller and smaller. I was just thinking about the thumb earlier as he still does it. He's getting better at not talking with it in his mouth because I'll tell him I can't understand him and start to walk away. Seems to work because it pops out right away. I'm just thinking that telling him that I'm going to leave him and his mother if he doesn't stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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