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"Don't pick your nose, Riley."A tiny toddler hand creeps downward from his snout-hole for .0008 seconds, then dives back in.
"Do you need a tissue? Let's get a tissue."
Obstinately, my boy stares at me, his finger still creeping around his nostril. The sight of my beautiful child reduced to a vacant, booger-mining apparition is suddenly too much, I lose it and raise my voice. "STOP PICKING YOUR NOSE RIGHT NOW."
Does he stop? No he does not. We are in a Boundary-Testing Stage, where whatever command I issue is challenged. No drinking juice allowed outside of the kitchen? Then he'll put one foot through the doorway, his eyes never leaving my face. "This?" he asks, grinning wickedly, his cup held high. Is this okay, then, this annoying deliberate ignorance of the rules? "This?"
With nose-picking, he gets sullen and annoyed with me, and frankly I get equally annoyed with him because GROSS. God, a nose-picking kid; I love my boy but BLECH.
So! Any of you have any advice re: nose-digging? Currently my best tactic is distraction ("OH HEY IS THAT A BIRD OUTSIDE??"), is that the best I can hope for at this stage?
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4-18-2008 @ 10:40AM
rebecca Biernesser said...I agree with just redirecting their hands and such...
On a side note, To gross out my nieces that are in the middle school, i have informed them that everyone picks those noses, fact of life. They do it in the car when they think no one is watching them. To prove my point, we watched people at red lights and stop signs and sure enough, nose pickers....
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4-18-2008 @ 9:59PM
Uly said...If he's picking his nose, chances are that there's something in there, and he can feel it.
Blowing the nose might not work if it's, uh, crusted over.
Try some nasal irrigation every day. Look it up, find out how to do it, and start up. You want to clear out the irritation so he doesn't *have* to resort to his own methods.
And, in the meantime, having him stay in the bathroom to pick his nose at least keeps it out of sight.
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