The tooth fairy was supposed to come last night for Madi's 4th lost tooth. She never showed up. Madi thinks that it is because she was sleeping on the floor in our room and the tooth fairy didn't know where she was. I told her that maybe the tooth fairy was too busy and thought that Madi could just wait one more day. The tooth fairy better come tonight or we will have some huge alligator tears.
Madi has also made us a deal now that she has lost her two front teeth she really needs to stop sucking her thumb. Luckily it is only a night thing now, but I really don't want her to have ugly teeth that have to be fixed and money spent. So she has two weeks to do it on her own. If she doesn't then we get her favorite purple blanket - which we are convinced is the cause of the thumb sucking. We will see how it goes.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
OOPS!!!
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I don't know about that. I sucked my thumb too, and my parents tried everything! When they took away my blanket, I just used another. But, I did quit eventually, when I went to school... I think.
We have some nail polish called "stop 'n grow" you paint it on their nails or fingers each day and it tastes horrible so they don't put their fingers or thumbs in their mouth. It's good for nail biters, thumb suckers or nose pickers.
The tooth fairy has forgotten to come to our house at least 20 times. She really isn't very responsible.
My five year old is STILL sucking. She doesn't have a blanket or anything, she just sucks. ALL the time. We took her to the dentist last week to see about getting one of those "cage" things put in her mouth to stop her from sucking. The dentist told us that in all his experience (and he was kind of an older guy, so it's gotta be awhile) he has never seen any of those things work unless the kid is ready to stop and old enough to understand that they need to stop. He said if we put the cage in, she'd find a way to get around it, or open her mouth wider, or stick a blanket in. If it had to do with a blanket (which our 4 year old uses while she sucks), if you take it away they just get a new one to use. He said that it's just such an ingrained habit that they can't understand how to make themselves quit until they're a little older (around 8). And especially when they're sleeping, they're doing it unconciously and there's no way they can make themselves stop. So he suggested just constantly reminding her not to suck when we see her, but not doing anything drastic until later (if she hasn't stopped on her own by then).
And we have tried the nail polish stuff - they both just sucked it off. My husband's made weird concoctions of garlic powder and almond extract and who knows what else, they suck it off. He's even cut off the top of a jalepeno pepper and rubbed their thumbs all around inside of it, they just sucked it off (crying the whole time).
Good luck! :)
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