Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Thumb sucking










A series of actions..........to thumb sucking. He is learning to co-ordinate his fingers with his mouth. Sometimes, he may poke his fingers to the wrong part.... like his nose.
Recently, my son has developed a new habit. He sucks his thumbs to soothe himself since he was two months old. I am so concerned if it will hurt his thumb. I wanna to stop him sucking his thumb by scolding and hitting his hand but to no avail. I even feed him water whenever he sucks his fingers. Worse still, he refused to drink water now.

Was a pacifier better than his thumb? Internet answers were 'NO'. It is fine as long as he didn't carry on this habit until his childhood year.

Hmmm........... hopefully, he will find toys more interesting than his thumb one day.

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