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As the title suggests I feel a little silly posting it but I would like some advice.
DD (21 months) has discovered her nose and constantly picks it. Not a problem as such I hear you say but she picks it that much it is bleeding. She has obviously irritated something in there and I am worried that she is just going to make it worse.
I have no idea how to stop her. Any ideas? I have tried telling her to stop, simply moving her hand away from her nose etc?
TIA
Oh some of these "discoveries" they make as they're growing up are seriously horrid aren't they! Oskar actually only fairly recently started to do the nose thing too... but he's 3. He was doing it to the point of bleeding also, however now if I see him doing it I remind him the if he keeps doing it then it might bleed. That does it for him. Not sure if reminding her that it might bleed would help at all?
Reminds me though... lol... my brother was a SHOCKER and my mum put a bandaid across his nose pmsl... seriously she did this!
:lol: Ozzie, you mum and I are alike. I told DD1 if she did not stop I would tape it closed...she kept picking so I put several bandaids on it. She felt very silly, and it worked :) She still has odd pick :lol: but no mining :rofl:
Good luck.
Dd1 kept doing this, and there was a lot of blood. She hated having to hold the tissues so we tell her stop or you will make blood. I also took her to our gp and he told her not to play with her nose, he also did this when she was putting sultanas up her nose. She loves him as he is great with kids and she has listened as she hasn't made her nose bleed since. She does still pick to 'get the boogers out' as she tells me.
DD1 has always been a nose picker. Never to the point of bleeding though!
I used to just remind her constantly that noone wants to see it & that if she was desperate to go do it in the loo!
She's 8 now & I can't remember the last time I saw her go for it. A few years ago. I'm not sure if she even still does :dunno:
I'm glad the other 2 haven't thought of it (yet!)
My 2 1/2 year old does this too. He takes it one step further though and licks his fingers right after. So gross, ugh it makes me gag! I've been telling him to stop whenever I catch him and tell him to get a Kleenex instead but now he just hides and does it. I may have to threaten him with a band-aid and see if that helps LOL.
Oh, we just had that phase. She'd walk around with a finger in each nostril and only whip one out so she could point at us and go "pick your nose, mummy!"
It passed, thankfully.
Aren't kids hilarious?
My DS started this not so long ago as well and it seems to be losing it's novelty.
For us, we would move his hand and say "yuck Cooper!" and he'd stare and slowly move the hand away.
Then for a bit he thought it was a game and would look at me, slowly put the finger up to his nose and smile.......so I thought I'd try something different.
When I saw him going for the nose, I'd say "hey Coops" and when I got his attention I'd put my finger on my jaw (like I'm thinking) and say "hmmmm" then point up and say "I know, let's go play" and take away his attention to something else.
This worked well and now when he wants to say something, he puts his finger to his jaw and mimics that same "hmmmm......I know!" - so sweet..
So diversion may work at 21 months - my DS was around the same age as yours so I think diversion works better than explanations IYKWIM?