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Article: Tips to get kids to quit sucking their thumbs
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- March 21, 2002
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Tips to get kids to quit sucking their thumbs
Q: "My 9-year-old stepdaughter has been a thumb-sucker since she
was a baby and shows no signs of quitting. Her dentist and
orthodontist have asked her to try to gradually break the habit, but
she refuses to even try. The only time she doesn't suck her thumb is
when she's at school or playing with other children." -- A STEPMOTHER
FROM DALLAS
A: One 20-year-old Arizona woman has suckedher thumb since birth
and doesn't plan to quit, despite pleas from her fiance and
relentless name-callingby her parents.
"To this day, everything my parents did and said has stuck with
me," she says. "They called me a baby. They said, `She'll be walking
down the ...