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The Art of Nose Blowing
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My father once said that one of his greatest accomplishments as a parent was teaching his children how to blow their noses. Seeing us all stopped up and miserable, wiping our dripping noses on whatever was handy, made him crazy. But it took many, many lessons and lots of frustration on his part before any of us were able to successfully get the snot from our noses onto a tissue.I don't know if it is just the Maple family or what, but I have had only limited success in teaching my own eight-year-old how to blow her nose. She gets the idea -- shut your mouth, hold one nostril closed and blow -- but she can't seem to build up enough force to really get the mucus moving.
It has come to my attention that there is a website, sponsored by Kleenex, dedicated to teaching children how to stop the spread of cold germs. One segment is called Tissues to the Rescue and features a cartoon kid with a cold properly blowing his nose on a tissue. "Nathan breathes in, then closes his mouth and blows his nose."
Okay, this Nathan kid may have mastered the art of nose blowing, but we are still struggling over here. How did you teach your kid to blow his nose? Is there some trick to this? Or is my family truly nose-blowing impaired?
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1-01-2009 @ 3:37PM
Jenni said...In the preschools, we start very young. We don't just wipe their noses, we talk them through it.
As toddlers, we hold the tissue for them and say, "blow" and then immitate what we mean. We continue this each time and repeat "blow" and the action until we hear/see no more mucus coming out.
As the toddlers get older, we have them hold the tissue on their nose while we hold over their hand so that they can begin to learn how to hold the tissue. Again, we repeat the verbal ("blow") and the action cues.
At three, they are pretty much doing it on their own, but they always seem to follow it up with the wipe that smears everything they just got out all over their cheek. yeah, gross, but a developmental step.
By the time they are 4, they are pretty much blowing their nose on their own and rarely need help. Sometimes they need reminders to get it all out because a quick wipe is so much faster and gets them back playing so much quicker.
The toughest part is getting them to undertand that blow. But, with showing them while they are doing it, they seem to pick it up so much quicker.
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1-15-2009 @ 10:43PM
apple said...First teach the kid to blow their nose by putting a small round piece of cereal on the table(Kix, Trix CoCo Puffs, etc) Tell kid to move the cereal across the table by breathing out hard (Blow). Once they do it they know how to blow into a tissue.
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