Stop thumb sucking

Thumb sucking is worrying since it might become a baby’s habit. In addition, it might cause disease and protruding teeth. Actually, a thumb sucking is a natural instinct since baby associates sucking with feeding and pleasure. This need to sick usually diminishes sometime during the first years. To help baby stop sucking the thumb, try the following tips:

Distract and Substitute

As soon as you see the thumb going toward the mouth, quickly distract your child or insert a toy into both hands. At night time, you can hold your baby’s hand or wrap your fingers around the thumb in order that he or she doesn’t feel lonely. Keep the baby calm until he sleeps. The child will gradually forget and stop sucking the thumb.

Carrot Not Stick

A mother should tell your child that he will get 1 star if he does not suck the thumb. Once he has 3 stars, he can get a surprised gift. You might wrap his thumbs with cute cartoon plaster patch telling him that “the plaster will help you get the star faster.” The child will think of these words whenever he put his thumb toward the mouth.

I’m scare.

This works well. Draw your face on the child’s thumb. When he is about to put his thumb into the mouth, you just beg him telling that the thumb is you. It is scary when you are in his mouth. It’s wet and dark. The child will stop sucking the thumb faster. This way also proves how much he loves you.

 
Tip :Parents should keep baby busy with the preferred activities. Don’t let the bored little thumbs find their way into the mouth. It might take sometimes. Eventually, the child will gradually forget and stop putting their thumbs into the mouth.