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- From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
- Subject: Re: Thumb Sucking
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:04:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.200417.188@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- References: <8fLkZ=i00UhWE5SRpT@andrew.cmu.edu> <1jpc5mINNs0e@mizar.usc.edu> <1jpgadINNch9@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1jpgadINNch9@gap.caltech.edu> hough@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Susan Hough) writes:
- >In article <1jpc5mINNs0e@mizar.usc.edu> biddleco@mizar.usc.edu (Susan Biddlecomb) writes:
- >>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.
- >Now, a little boy might not be so easily swayed with the same bribe ;o)
- >but if he's still sucking his thumb in a couple of years, there may
- >well be something else that he _really_ _really_ wants that would
- >make a good bribe. I wouldn't try it with a 5-yr old, though.
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- My son was also a thumb-sucker, and I didn't give it NEARLY as much thought
- and worry as his grandparents and aunts and uncles and teachers and just
- about everybody he came in contact with did, including store clerks ("hunny,
- does that thumby taste GOOD? You're going to need braces!!") and strangers
- on the street.
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- I guess I took the wuss way out. When he was 5.5, he went out to Phoenix
- for five weeks to visit his dad and returned without the habit, narry a
- trace. Even that callous on his thumb was gone. I didn't ask, I don't CARE,
- he doesn't run screaming from butcher knives, so whatever they did out there
- they must have done right.
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- Nance Colucci att!ihlpl!colucci
- "And my son has a thyroid, so that must make me a glandparent."
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