To excpect 5.6 yr old dd to NOT wipe her mouth on her dress during mealtimes?

[notnowbernard]

Do other dc do this, at this age?

She's ALWAYS doing this and it drives me nuts!

I provide kitchen roll napkins routinely but still she wipes her gravy-mouth on her dress/sleeve/whatever

AIBU to expect better table-manners at this age?

YANBU. She's old enough to know better.

No, YANBU - but my DS turned 7 recently and still tries to wipe his mouth on his t-shirt despite having been lectured on manners at family meals (and we have two of them every day!) since forever!!

I am still battling on this one with DS (now 6.5!). He is s l o w l y improving.

Ds is 10 and he still does this. It drives me nuts! I nag until the cow's come home, it makes no diferrence. Darn!

My DD's do this too. They are 4.11 and 6.
But the worst offender is my 12 yr old DS1 who wipes his nose on his t-shirt. Now that is gross!

I get that aswell Tortoise!

LOL is was going to say my 12 yr old Ds is terrible for wiping his hands on his trousers and his nose on his jumpers.

Glad I'm not alone

DS is 6.5 and does it too. Have to constantly remind him to use a kitchen roll napkin.

If he's not using his jumper/shirt/t-shirt to wipe his mouth/nose he's wiping his hands on his trousers. Then there's the nose picking he 'doesn't do' Kids are gross!!!

Fuffybunny That sound just like my DS1! Grotty kids!

He's sitting reading and picking at the moment. If I tell him to leave his nose alone he acts ignorant. It's gross!

My 7yr old still does this. He doesn't use his dress though but whatever he is wearing And uses his sleeve/arm to wipe his nose, even with boxes of tissues in nearly every room

My 4yr old dd rarely does it.

DD (a month older) still does this too but miraculously when we are out or eating at someone elses she is the daintiest napkin dabber you have seen

I'm 23 and still do this.... lol

my ds1 5.9yrs is terrible as well - spilling stuff down him etc. So i made him wear a babys pelican bib. He soon made a tramatic improvement !!

It's not so much ds' sleeves that are the problem, it's when he is in short sleeves and doesn't care forgets there is no sleeve to use but wipes his nose/mouth anyway [yuck emoticon]

yanbu to want it

my 3.5 does it - but my 6.5 doesnt - think all the nagging has finally sunk it

the 6.5 also chews on the sleeves of school jumpers

Mine does it too.

We do at least appear to have managed to fix the wiping snot on the wall habit!