Jenna has sucked her fingers since she was a baby when we took her pacifier away (4 mos) to try to help her gain weight. For the last year or so, she has only sucked them at naptime and night time. She told us that when she was 4, she would stop sucking them. About a week after she turned 4, we thought we would help her, so we gave her a glove (a pretty one!) to wear to bed at night. About the 3rd night into this, we lost the glove. We were going to look for another one and she said, “It’s ok. I don’t need it.” We were very skeptical. But, she has never sucked her fingers since.
Last night I took her out for ice cream to celebrate her entry into the non-finger-sucking world. I asked her what the secret was to how she quit sucking her fingers. She said, “I sucked the glove and it was yucky.” I said, “You sucked the glove? Did you try sucking it for a second, or how long?” Jenna said, “About a minute.” I said, “Well, when you didn’t have the glove on, how did you keep from sucking your fingers?” She said, “Well. I wanted to be like Jackie and Jillian. I looked at them and saw that they were going to sleep with their arms down. So I did that too.”
And there you have it.
Last night I took her out for ice cream to celebrate her entry into the non-finger-sucking world. I asked her what the secret was to how she quit sucking her fingers. She said, “I sucked the glove and it was yucky.” I said, “You sucked the glove? Did you try sucking it for a second, or how long?” Jenna said, “About a minute.” I said, “Well, when you didn’t have the glove on, how did you keep from sucking your fingers?” She said, “Well. I wanted to be like Jackie and Jillian. I looked at them and saw that they were going to sleep with their arms down. So I did that too.”
And there you have it.
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Mia did the SAME thing with sucking her thumb. She just decided she was done, and that was it. I remember doing that when I was four or five, too. They grow up so fast!
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