Summary
Bringing up babies and children isn't always an easy job. From newborns to teenagers, each age has its own joys and challenges. Shona Russell aims to help you with practical guidance and information, based on her experience as a counsellor, a child-care writer and mother-of-three. If you've got an issue you think she can deal with, write to her here at the Evening Chronicle. She'll do her best to share some down-to-earth advice.
Q. My four-year-old son has sucked his fingers from being a baby. I can't remember a time when he didn't! As soon as he found he had things he could suck on the end of his hands, he was away. The main problem is that his skin is always soggy, and he has sores and macerated skin which are painful and unpleasant. When the fingers become too sore to suck, he moves on to the other hand. Then when these fingers start to feel and look horrible, he moves back to the other hand which has healed up a bit and starts again on those ones. The result is he always has bad skin on one or both of his hands. It also worries me that the position of his teeth could be affected if he continues. I think it has a bad effect on his speech, and he tries to talk with his fingers in his mouth and I am forever taking them out, or telling him to do so. I feel I am always on at him about it and yet it doesn't make any difference at all except for that particular moment.See the full content of this document
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A. This is a difficult situation. It seems it is a fairly entrenched habit that's going to be ha...
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