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- From: biddleco@mizar.usc.edu (Susan Biddlecomb)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Thumb Sucking
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:50:46 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <8fLkZ=i00UhWE5SRpT@andrew.cmu.edu> Nancy Monda <nm0b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- > Now that he's in Kindergarten, I'm really getting nervous that he'll
- >NEVER stop!
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- >Does anyone have advice on whether I should encourage him to stop, if so how?
- >Should I be worried about his teeth? - he still has all his baby teeth,
- >but I imagine he'll start to lose them soon.
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- Well, this probably isn't what you want to hear ... but my younger sister
- sucked her thumb all the way through college! She finally stopped (so she
- says) when she got married at age 29.
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- My mom tried every imaginable way to get her to stop, but at most it would
- get more secretive (we shared a bedroom, so she couldn't keep many secrets
- from me). Her teeth didn't suffer at all -- none of us had or needed braces --
- but I know she was very ashamed of the habit when she became an adult.
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- Susan
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