DD is a scumbag

[DubBgoodToMe]

She is 2.5 and picks her nose and eats it! Sometimes she sits there chewing it

How do I get her to stop???

I move her hand before it gets to her mouth and she either throws a fit or giggles and thinks it's. A game.

Please give me some tips.

NB: she absolutely does not get this from me.

[LEMmingaround]

Get over it - so what if she picks her nose - it doesn't make her a scumbag ffs - are you pissed?

[mawbroon]

I think they all do this!

Teach her the Pick it, lick it, roll it up and flick it rhyme

[Faverolles]

Ds likes to share his, and tries to put them in my mouth. Bleurgh.

[TeaAndALemonTart]

Nice.

[PourquoiTuGachesTaVie]

Leave her alone. Honestly if you can't eat your own bogeys in peace at 2 then when can you?

[ilovepowerhoop]

better that she eats it rather than sticking it to the furniture or wiping it on the carpet

[wheresthelight]

Got no idea!! Dss still does it at 10 the vile child!

[LEMmingaround]

I still pick my nose - i like getting big juicy bogeys, stretching them between my fingers and then eat them.

[Longdistance]

Nah, they're practising how to mine and dig. Could also come in handy for chimney sweep school.

[MysweetAudrina]

I just ask if they are going to share.

[DubBgoodToMe]

I don't mind her picking her nose. It's the eating it. She never leaves it alone!!! It's her favourite meal...

[DubBgoodToMe]

She has tried to share it. She can be very insistent.

[naty1]

It must be automatic, gorillas on tv do it.
We are at the picking stage 22m.
I was trying to stop but just read ignoring might work better

[HoldOnHoldOnSoldier]

A Scumbag? Really? You were right in your op you really should hang your head in shame!

[stonehairbrush]

SOMEONE CALL THE SOCIAL,SHE CALLED HER CHILD A SCUMBAG!

Get over it, you tedious bores.

OP - my DH picks his nose and it drives me crackers!! Thankfully he doesn't eat it.

I think just reinforcing how gross it is might help long term. And it is a scumbag thing to do.

Hopefully she'll grow out of it when she notices how disgusted other people are by it!

[GiveTwoSheets]

Yuk but I did read somewhere (some new study -research bollocks) people who eat it are more intelligent cant for the life of me remember where, I'm just glad mine prefer to wipe on walls or furniture cos the i can shout at them to clean it

[DubBgoodToMe]

Ha, thank you stonehairbrush.

It is a dirty thing. I mean... Gorillas do it!!!

She's always done it and I thought she'd just grow out of it but if anything she loves it even more now.

Her immune system is excellent...

[DubBgoodToMe]

Oh god... She already makes cakes.

[Meglet]

Mine do it.

And this is why I never ever eat anything they, or other children, have made.

[DubBgoodToMe]

Never even thought of it! At her old CM she came back every Tuesday with some beautifully crafted cake. I loved it and sometimes didn't tell her dad one was made for him too.

That's karma...

[atthestrokeoftwelve]

Extremely common behaviour, most kids and many adults do it. Most higher primates do it. Research has shown that eating bogies - with all the microbes they contain provide a natural immunisation to keeping those bugs at bay. So from a biological perspective not so daft.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-headlines/picking-your-nose-could-be-good-for-you-says-sask-scientist-1.1255167

[DubBgoodToMe]

At least it's higher primates

[HolidayCriminal]

2? meh, try 9yo boys.
My dad warned me categorically that 9yo boys are dirtbags. Too true!