DD has always bitten her nails a little bit but lately she is biting them so far down at times they are bleeding and the cuticle and quick are all red and sore.
Is the stuff you get to paint on from the chemist the best thing for her?? I haven't ever used it myself and not sure it is ok for a 3 year old?
Anyone else have a nail biter and any advice?? We keep telling her to stop because it will hurt and bleed and she just tells us it doesn't hurt.
Bites her toenails too occasionally ( takes after her mum, there is photo evidence of me at 3 doing the same thing - all class! )
you can try the bitter stuff, we used it on DD1 for thumbs sucking but she pulled a funny face the first time and continued to suck it
not to say it wont work, its definatly worth a try
Nail biter stuff didn't work for mine. She claimed she loved the taste.
She's been biting since she was about 3 or 4, she's almost 10 now. Sometimes she stops biting her nails and still makes her cuticles a mangled bleeding mess, I have no idea how she does it. When she was at her worst she bit her nails past the quick, mangled her cuticles AND bit the skin off the ends of her fingers about 1cm down the pads
No idea why she does it or how to make her stop. I never see her do it either, I think she must do it in bed.
Oh my goodness RE that is awful, poor darlings, not sure why they do it. I see Iz do it and tell her to stop, when she was younger she would say NAIL mummy NAIL and I would cut off the bit that was bothering her but shes just getting worse and worse. They look so sore and awful, I just feel so sorry for her. Will get some stuff from the chemist. Worth a try I guess.
I hear you Tan. DD is exactly the same. I can't stop her biting them and they look just terrible. To make it worse she holds down her brother and bites his too!!! I'm just going to let her go for a while longer because I'm too scared to use the stop biting nail stuff at her age. I have tried putting bandaids over them but they only lasted a few seconds. I've also tried painting them with nail polish and tried the "they are so pretty!! You can't bite them because they won't look pretty anymore". So what did DD do?? She used her teeth to grate off the nail polish and then continued biting!!!
No idea how we are going to stop these girls of ours!!!
Oh god Dan I laughed at her holding Will down they are such funny muffins!!!!! I might try the pretty polish too because she likes seeing my nails done so who knows, if she only bites them a wee bit that would be better!
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they are such funny muffins!!!!! I might try the pretty polish too because she likes seeing my nails done so who knows, if she only bites them a wee bit that would be better!
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