Nose Picker!!

[5 Little Monkeys]

I have one 3 yo who is a nose picker and the other 3 yo is the opposite...lets her nose run until it's in her mouth....blech!!

With the nose picker, I always ask him to get a kleenex when I see it happen. I remind him that it's gross and it spreads germs on our toys. When a toy gets dirty here (usually from them putting in their mouth) they have to put it in the sink and I will wash it the next time I do dishes. So if all the toys are in the sink they won't have much fun! He sometimes gets nose bleeds from picking so I remind him that he doesn't want to get "sick" and have his nose bleed because if he does, he will have to sit down in the kitchen until it stops and he won't be able to play with his friends.

With the runny nose, I remind her she is a big girl and she doesn't need to wait for me to wipe it. I also have kleenex where they can get at it and she knows that she is able to go and get one whenever. I also remind her that she will get sick if she keeps eating her boogers and if she's sick she can't come to daycare.

It's a never ending battle with both of them lol. Hopefully it's a phase that they all age out of soon!!

[AmandaKDT]

I have one 3 yo who is a nose picker and the other 3 yo is the opposite...lets her nose run until it's in her mouth....blech!!

With the nose picker, I always ask him to get a kleenex when I see it happen. I remind him that it's gross and it spreads germs on our toys. When a toy gets dirty here (usually from them putting in their mouth) they have to put it in the sink and I will wash it the next time I do dishes. So if all the toys are in the sink they won't have much fun! He sometimes gets nose bleeds from picking so I remind him that he doesn't want to get "sick" and have his nose bleed because if he does, he will have to sit down in the kitchen until it stops and he won't be able to play with his friends.

With the runny nose, I remind her she is a big girl and she doesn't need to wait for me to wipe it. I also have kleenex where they can get at it and she knows that she is able to go and get one whenever. I also remind her that she will get sick if she keeps eating her boogers and if she's sick she can't come to daycare.

It's a never ending battle with both of them lol. Hopefully it's a phase that they all age out of soon!!

I have one that lets it run into her mouth, it SO grosses me out. And, lucky me, she is also the one that is always getting sick. I am lucky if she goes 2 weeks without a runny nose. I have kleenex readily available, but she could seem to care less.

But my younger daughter is the opposite and if she has any sort of feeling that her nose is running she has a fit and starts screaming that she needs a kleenex. It is a bit exhausting.

So I can't win either way! Lol

Just waiting for them to get a little bit older so they can both grow out of their totally opposite but related problems!

Don't have any solution for the nose picking, aside from keeping on them to not pick and to use a kleenex. If they were older and independent in thd bathroom I would send them to wash their hands every time, perhaps would be a deterent since they would have to keep stopping what they were doing to go wash hands.