Thursday, January 21, 2010

My daughter is 11 and she bites her nails and she also picks her nose and eats it how do i get her to stop?

She is going into 6th grade and i no that's when kids are mean. I want her to be a nice respected kid not a booger eater who gets picked on everyday. Any tips on how to get her to stop both before summer is over?My daughter is 11 and she bites her nails and she also picks her nose and eats it how do i get her to stop?
idk. tell her thats not what girls do? let her be herself and if people don't like her then its their loss right?My daughter is 11 and she bites her nails and she also picks her nose and eats it how do i get her to stop?
For biting her nails: You can buy nail polish that is specifically created to get people to stop biting their nails. It tastes awful so every time she bites her nails there's the bad taste, and eventually her subconscious mind will remember that her nails taste bad and it will break the habit.





For picking her nose: Have her research how germy her boogers are, and maybe she'll get so grossed out by it she'll stop. If not, a good way to stop habits is by replacing that habit with another, lesser habit. So tell her that she needs to stop picking her nose, and that to break the habit every time she is about to reach up to her nose, to touch her finger to her elbow. Again, eventually her subconscious will realize she needs to stop doing this.





But for both of these, you just need to talk to her. Explain that that's not what teenage girls do- that will make her feel more grown up and pride will help make her stop. Good luck!
I have an eleven year old sister.Biting your nails is not as bad as picking your nose and eating it.To get my sister to stop picking her nose i told her that every time she needed to (or felt like) pick her nose to blow her nose.Sometimes their teacher will also give them tissues to put in your desk if you ask.For the Biting her nails issue try having her clip her nails as often as you can.
Tell her that every week she gets 拢10. Whenever she does those dirty habits, deduct 拢2. %26amp; also explain to her that she will get seriously picked on if she does those dirty habits in school!


It would also be a good idea to show her how to cut her nails with nail cutter, you can encourage her by getting her a manicure showing her that its best to not bite Your nails!





good luck!
Ow, She better stop or kids will be picking on her and calling her names!





Try telling her that most people don't like to hang out with people who pick their noses and biting their nails (although the biting thing, A LOT Of people do that now )


Or Try To Disguise (I Dunno If It's The Right Word) Her By Showing Her Videos Or Other People Who Are Doing That Trust Me, She will be disgusted!


And when she's a little older she'll know that that would be embarrassing Thing to do!








Hope i helped!
My sister used to bite her nails. What my mom did was she told her for every week she went without biting her nails she would get a small present. She would check her nails every week and if she hadn't chewed them she would take her to get an ice cream or a small toy of my sisters choosing. If she had, she wouldn't get the gift. It didn't take long before she stopped biting her nails. I think you could try to do something similar for the nose picking too. Good luck.
Tell your daughter to bite enough nail clippings off and pick her nose enough until she has come up with a hundred grams each... If you want her to hurry with this process, you, the mother and her siblings can help contribute... Once you have done this, pretend you're going to make a chicken pie... make the pastry bit then for the stuffing, throw all of the ingredients your family has worked hard to collect and then bake for 2 hours. Enjoy!
She might be biting her nails when she is nervous. If not, i would paint her nails with clear coating that does not taste good. If she does not like the taste, she will not go back to the same routine. About the booger problem....if she gets embarrassed in public or in a group of friends, she might decide not to do this again. I think if a boy observes this, she will stop.
my daughters nose ran, and he feet smelled at that same age. turned out, she was built upside down!





try positive reinforcement of some sort: give money for nails growing, subtact money for booger play.





I share your concern: I recall Connie, a girl in 6th grade who was tortured to hysteria by the kids saying she picked her boogers and ate them. Did you know if you get scotch tape, and rub it between your fingers, you shortly get a small dark sticky product which looks just like a booger? They used to put them on Connie's desk and school papers....
I had the nail biting problem when I was younger. My mom took me to get acrylic nails. Just basic french tips. Its really hard to bite your nails that way, and get it up your nose too I would imagine. It takes 3-4 weeks to break a habit so she needs to keep on top of whatever remedy you try for about a month to have a chance of breaking it forever.
don't slap her or beat her!!!!!!!! thats terrible and child abuse and how could you do that?!?!





here's what you do:


*make a chart or write down on a piece of paper a tally mark or something each time she bites or picks her nose...maybe give her a sticker or a cool eraser or pencil every day she doesn't do it (: when she does she can get a special privledge taken away like the computer or TV for a day or 2





hope this helps!
the fingers: put band aides on her fingers until school starts making sure she doesnt chew the band aides





the nose: tell her she wont have any friends and that the older kids will put her in trash cans. LIGHTLY slap her hand every time she does it too. not to soft, with a little force.
when we were trying to make my sister stop sucking her thumb we put this nasty tasting nail polish (its designed for this sort of thing) on her thumb nail so she couldnt suck it.





and also we promised her that Santa would bring her a big present if she stopped before christmas. and santa was ALWAYS watching and knew if you broke that rule. try tht.
tell er u can get really really sick if u eat boogers. maybe evn make up a story about how u knew someone who ate boogers and really ill.also tell her that if she picks her nose and then eats its, kids will make fun of her. tell her its disgusting and weird. also, try giving her those small packs of tissues so she doesnt pick her nose. that way when she is in class she wont have to. plus i bet she just picks her nose around u cuz ur her mom, im pretty sure she will be embarrassed to do that in school. also as for the biting of nails, go online and get a pic of a persons nails after they bite it.


http://www.tricitypsychology.com/blog/wp鈥?/a>





also mention that its bad for er health. and also add that if she doesnt bite it she can have nice long nails with nailpolish.





good luck
for biting her nails tell her to paint her nails because it makes it taste very nasty when your biting your nails with the paint on them.





and for the picking her nose part.. tell her she won't get any friends if she keeps doing that because its gross and a lot of people think she's gross.
I use to do it when i was 8 until my older sister told me its about as dirty as licking a toilet and i will get a horrible disease from it. but that doesn't work for everyone my younger sister still bites her nails.
well im sure that she wont do that in public.biting nails isnt such an embarassing thing,just a bad habbit.just let her discover that she will get made fun of because of some things.tween girls hate it when you try to get in their faces.she will let herself discover what to do.dont worry
i would tell her to cut her nails to where it is VERY difficult to pick her nose or bite her nails, that way it would either hurt her finger or her nose if she tries too hard. It's like a 2-for-1 deal for me :)
They make nail polish with a bitter taste that you can put on so she doesn't bite her nails. I would sit her down and tell her how gross it is to pick your nose and eat it. Then buy her some tissues to take with her or something. good luck!
people need to stop with the abusive answers.





im 15 and i still bite my finger nails like thats all i eat and i picked my nose for a long time. stop trying to make her do something that is normal. she will grow out of it.
you can buy a nail polish or something to put on her nails that will taste AWFUL when she bites her nails





and you could try putting hand sanitizer on her hands a lot so when she eats it, shell taste the hand sanitizer :l~ eww lol
Have her put finger nail polish on her hands and have a long talk about what kid will do and say to her and if that doesn't work tell her she will have to get a woupon with the belt.
Just tell her that she should stop. Do it nicely, (obviously don't beat her!) Get her to start using tissues. If she has trouble breaking the habit, then put oven mits on her hands so she can't pick her nose. Good luck :]
EW. she should know what's right and wrong if she's 11. That is just gross. Eating your boogers is unhealthy. And do you know how many germs are in the crevisis of your nails? Your the parent.. take charge!
She'll do it once in class, they'll tease her, and she'll stop. That's society, that's how kids learn. She won't be a booger eater forever, or at least she'll get sneakier about it.
Be open with her about it. Tell her that she is not a little kid anymore and she needs to stop. Just talk to her about it. She might be offended at first nut she'll get over it
Buy nail polish for her and tell her shel have to go to the docter to remove them threw her mouth with a a thng that sucks up every thing kinda like a vqcleaner . Hope I help Alot
My grandmother would tell me that if I bit my nails that worms would grow in my belly. I never bit them again after that!
To stop her nails, follow these steps-





http://www.ehow.com/how_4530195_stop-fin鈥?/a>








I am not sure about the boogers...





maybe get her something else to eat


maybe gummy bears or worms?
you don't.








she will eventually stop doing it while in front of you, but she will continue to do it in privacy
biteing nails is ok I bite my nails alot,but not eating boogers. Be honest to her and tell why she should stop eating boogers, but be extreamly reasonable.

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