To think if a child doesnt blow their own nose

[worriedwretch]

If a child (im talking 5 years old and over) doesn't blow their nose of their own volition then their parent or car giver should encourage them or facilitate them
(by giving them a tissue)

I spent some time with some relatives this weekend who's Dc are same ages as mine. Their oldest walks around with permenant green slugs dripping down to her top lip (nearly 6) and the youngest just coughs mouth wide open in any direction all the time with not a hand to cover her mouth in sight (nearly 5)

I know kids are GROSE etc. but seriously? What's the matter with teaching your children to have some basic hygiene and social skills?

Yuck.

DP can't physically blow out of his nose and he is 24.

Stranded: I can't imagine not being able too, I know a child who can't but always thought it was something you just got as you got older! How interesting.

OP I know a child who can't blow or, in her case her bogeys (for lack of a better word) are rock solid and completely block her nose up so have to be removed as she struggles with it, but she can't blow her nose. I think it hurts her if she tries though as she gets very distressed when doing it.

YANBU. Excluding unusual circumstances, children should not walk around with dripping snot. Yuk.

YANBU even if the child in the OP can't blow her nose for whatever reason she/her parents could at least wipe the snot off her face.

Its weird he can breath through it but can't blow with any force

The parents should keep the green goblins away though. And teaching the littelest to put their hand over.

My ds can't blow his nose either, he is 12. I have tried and tried to get him to learn how to do it, but it's just not happening!

but there is no "can you get a tissue and wipe / blow your nose please?"

and is it normal that kids at nearly 6 cant go to the loo with out parent? For wipe duty?

I was a tad confused... or am I just an utter bully parent and force my DC to wipe their own wee and snot ??

DS1 at age 12 cant blow his nose either. I remind him and he tries but unless I get him to concentrate and make an effort he says he just cant do it even though I can actually hear he is stuffed up.

YANBU dripping snot is disgusting, if mine couldn't blow their noses I would wipe it for them and they always cover their mouths when they cough.

DP is the nose genius - seriously he should hire himself out. Can train any small child how to blow their own noses and make them feel totally excellent about it, in a matter of hours.

What's GROSE?

Nusery did all that sort of thing for me. They taught the DC's (5 & 3) to blow/wipe their noses, wipe their bottoms and use cutlery.

DD is still only 3.10 and will go and get her own tissue. They are usually little terrors but we've managed to instill a few basic manners in them.

Oh it is disgusting isn't it?

I have a pal who's little one was always covered in snot...I used to gag looking at him sometimes, and when she wasn't looking I'd take a tissue to the revolting mess. She didn't seem bothered by it, but it turned my stomach.

We call it 'a bad case of the elevens' owing to the two thick straight lines of snot.

Bleeeuuurggghhh! Nothing eradicates a kid's cuteness factor faster, than globules of snot swinging about.

grose - grose, disgusting, grotesque (for some reason my phone changes it to block caps when i write it, i must have done that once )

love the "bad case of elevens"

It was running down to her lip and she'd snoooort is back up

grim

I can't blow my nose. Due to the genetic condition I have my eustachian tubes are so narrow I'd blow my eardrums out. I can wipe though. Lots. So I look like Rudolph.

Ahha. I thought I was missing out on some new acronym.

Ahha. I thought I was missing out on some new acronym.

Ahha. I thought I was missing out on some new acronym.

Ahha. I thought I was missing out on some new acronym.

Some people just don't see snot as gross.
It rates as the grossest thing human body produces, in my book!

ds has had a constant green running nose for years he is always being told to wipe it but it just keeps coming so he always looks snotty, we dont know why its happens neither to the doctors yes it looks gross but not much we can do short about it tbh