Almost 9 and STILL picking his nose!

[New Dawn]

LOL so does mine Maz... even saw him doing it in class doesnt seem to care... I hate the sticky farts mine does when ever I am helping with the home work... he thinks it just sooooooo funny... I am raising a real charmer here, some girl is gonna be sooooo lucky!!!!

[maz]

Tali - see I asked him if he does it at school and he says yes but only when he knows no-one can see so he is very awareof it

Ali - Ive tried ignoring it for 3 years hon...and there is only so many long gooey snots on fingers you can see going into your kids mouth...especially when there are 3 other kids sitting there watching him...VYolett has started biting her finger nails just like him too

Ive just booked him to play basketball twice a week....hopefully he'll be to occupied to worry about the deli up his nose.

[mrsmac]

I used to teach Yr6 and still had some doing it!! They'd get really embarrassed if anyone saw it, I never drew attention to it if I saw it, I just gave the kid a "look". Usually that was enough.
Maybe threaten to tel his teacher LOL

[LaDolceVita]

Oooooo I can understand your frustration! Gross!! My younger brother did the same until he was 11, coming up close to his 12th Birthday and my parents invented quite an elaborate story and convinced him that after 12 years of picking your nose and eating it, your nose caves in and your belly is so full of snot it won't work anymore so you have to have an operation on your 12th Birthday to suck out all the snot, but there's no way to fix the nose, it's caved in forever, I think they even found horrific photos of damaged noses etc and told him they were child nose pickers once upon a time and they didn't stop before they turned 12! They told him the only way to avoid the operation and having many needles and a caved nose forever was to stop picking your nose the day before your 12th birthday... Now I look back, WOW what a HORRIBLE way to influence the child, but IT WORKED! Well, that we know of, we never saw him pick his nose again, he always carried tissues and still does to this day... The story terrified him! Maybe there's something a bit milder than this method you could try if you're not feeling as mean and as desperate as my parents were that day! lol Good luck!!

[Phteven]

At his age I'd just ask him if he could do it in the privacy of his own room so that you don't have to see it

[New Dawn]

I used to teach Yr6 and still had some doing it!! They'd get really embarrassed if anyone saw it, I never drew attention to it if I saw it, I just gave the kid a "look". Usually that was enough.
Maybe threaten to tel his teacher LOL

I remember the teacher "look " well God I lost count over the year how many times I got the LOOK, always doing something wrong....

Lease he isnt snorting back gollies DS does it all the time, the teachers have even asked me about it, and tell him thats its not a nice sound, but no he dont give two hoots just keeps on snorting them back...

BTW ALL mine pick and eat their nose... hate it when you see they have a cold and they are nice and green

[grub17]

lol! i know you are stressed about this, but it's still kind of amusing.
my DH is 28 and also picks his nose. But he doesn't eat it thank god... instead he rolls it into a ball and flicks it away... or puts it under my car seat... eewww.

i think it's a boy thing!!

i remember being a picker when i was little and my dad would always say "did you pick a winner or only second place''. it's a sort of kind way of embarrasing you to stop.

dunno if that'll help.

good luck!

[Phteven]

Lease he isnt snorting back gollies DS does it all the time, the teachers have even asked me about it, and tell him thats its not a nice sound, but no he dont give two hoots just keeps on snorting them back...

There are worse things than that. My brother can snort a piece of spagetti up his nose then cough it back out his mouth so that he has one end hanging out his nostril and the other end hanging out his mouth!!! Then he pulls it back and forth.
And he can burp songs.

He's 33....

[squidipa]

aww maz i understand who frustrating it is my son is 8 and picks his nose but not his boogies but his flesh and his ears and his lips its GRRRRRRRRRR i wish i had some advice to share.

[Jahzara]

OH NO !
I dont know how to stop it - sorry ! I have caught my 6 year old picking his nose a few times and shot him down with "the look" - thankfully i have never seen him eat it.
My Niece used to eat her boogies and i was always completely grossed out - i had to say something - i couldnt help myself- yukko. They live on the mainland now so i dont have to see it.
Kids like gross things - maybe they like the warm gooey sensation !
Hard one - it definitely becomes a habit !

sorry, couldnt help myself - some of the comments had me in fits of laughter.