Puts Soother Competely In Mouth....advice?

[kindertime]

I hope your joking about the thumb part!! I have a family whose 6 year old still sucks her thumb! It is so gross.

Yes, kind of, sort of joking. I knew it would get someone's attention. I completely agree that it's gross but personally, if I had the choice, I would prefer the thumb to a soother. Whenever I have a child here that has one, they get boiled frequently here cuz I find the ones that come from home are so usually full of scummy stuff. That to me is so much grosser than a slobery thumb. Hands can be washed a lot easier. Oh, and to be clear, I am talking about thumb sucking for sleeping. Not that I prefer a 6yo walking around sucking her thumb.

[5 Little Monkeys]

A mom of a thumb sucker once told me she wished she had tried harder to get him to take a soother like his older brother had done. She said it's easier to take the soother away than it is to take the thumb away....she had a valid point lol

I don't really care one way or the other if a child has a soother (a baby/toddler I should say, not a 6 yo lol) but if he can put it in his mouth than I agree with those who said to ask for a larger one as he's outgrown the current one and it's now a safety concern

[Lee-Bee]

When my daughter was tiny young and started sucking her thumb I panicked and force the soother upon her. She took to it. It is just so much easier to take the soother away. The thumb will always be there, hence the many 4,5,6+ years old that still suck it. With a soother I was in control of when the habit was broken.

That said I washed them regularly and by the time she was 10months old she only had it in bed and in the car. When We were ready to get rid of them I just cut an x in the end of them all with a knife. She would put it in, call it broken and put it down. After about 2 days she had zero interest in them and I threw them all out.

[5 Little Monkeys]

That's how my mom got me off the soother too...cut the ends! Lol