I think I sucked my thumb until I was 12! Maybe even 13. Haha. It was very comforting, but also I was probaly left alone too often. I broke the habit by out growing it…eventually…
I was never a thumb sucker, and I gave up pacifiers before being 1 year old. However, at some point I started biting my fingernails, and I struggle with that to this day.
I have a friend who is in this 20s and still sucks his thumb.
I don’t remember but I do remember to get me to stop they did the tobasco on the thumb thing a bit although I don’t think that is necessarily what got me to stop. I know I was not doing it by kindergarten which I think was the goal of my parents.
According to my mother, I never started.
Too young to remember.
I was never permitted. I stopped it in my own by switching pacifiers. They were also off the bottle and on a sippie cup around ten months, but held onto it until about age three. Self-feeding was a fun time that consisted of a plastic drop
loathcloth under their toddler table and chair. That lasted maybe a summer, but before official fall, they were doing well enough to not need it.Fingers not allowed in the mouth. It was the same for me and for my kids. You can take a pacifier away eventually, but you can’t take away fingers.
My son never did a pacifier either, but my daughter gave up the pacifier just after her 3rd birthday.
It was the same in my family, and no pacifiers after 12 months. My mom was a preschool teacher and saw many a child with anxiety and messed up teeth from thumb sucking and pacifiers in her classroom. She refused to let us do the same.
Plot twist though my son latches on anything that goes in his mouth like an infant and I have no idea how to break him of it. He can drink fine from a normal cup, but he goes all tongue and top lip on straws, spill proof cups, or anything else you suck on. It’s weird. Best-laid plans and all that I guess.
Yes, I think mine just naturally gave up the pacifier and sippie cup around the same time. About the time they decided on their own to sleep in their own bed, in their own room.
Never did. My niece stopped in high school, though
I remember having sucked my thumb for way longer than necessary. Maybe I stopped at 3 or 4? I only remember that my mom always complained about me doing it and it’ll make my teeth grow crooked.
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