Thumb sucker/super drooler

[Inspired by Reggio]

Thumb sucking is a hard habit to break for sure ... and a personal thing cause it can affect their teeth growth and so forth so some families do not want to encourage it too long to avoid the costly orthodontist expense of fixing teeth later.

Personally be it a soother or a thumb I start to discourage the use of that outside of 'quiet time' ... so once you are 'walking' the only place you can have a soother or thumb is in your bed when you are tired or need some down time - if you are under the weather sometimes I let kids lay down in the playroom in the book nook with a soother or thumb other than that if you are happy and playing and the thumb goes into the mouth you get asked 'do you need some time alone on your bed with that' and they generally pull it out quickly.

With the drooling ... the straw is an awesome muscle develop in addition to sucking with it for drinks use it for blowing games as well .... blow feathers around or create games where you blow various things like a 'race'. Bubble blowing is another awesome mouth muscle developer. Learning to 'whistle' and so forth.