Nose blowing - or lack of!

[hillbilly]

Any ideas how to teach my DS (4) how to blow his nose. DD could do it from an early age so I'm not sure what's normal. There was a hilarious scene the other week when DH was down on the ground with a straw and malteser trying to show DS how to blow. No succes though - DS just though his daddy was being an idiot - he may have had a point too!

I can still remember the moment I realised what everybody was on about when they said 'blow your nose'. I was six . But terribly advanced in other respects I expect.

DD2 can do it now and she's only 16 months so I reckon there's a massive variance.

My DS (6) is a nightmare when it comes to nose blowing. He pretty much refuses as he 'doesn't like it'. He can do it but it's in very short bursts & he doesn't clear much out....very annoying!

My way of teaching him to say to pretend he is blowing out candles accross the room with his nose only :)

Mine is 3 and when I tell her to blow, she just makes a "honk" noise from her mouth. The one time she did it, I think she was freaked out by the feeling, she said it was like a snake eating her nose. She's a weirdo.
But my friends 3 year old can blow her nose. She was taught by the imagining candles on a cake method also. Tried it on mine but she looked at me like I was deranged.

Thanks - I will try the candle thingy but pretty sure I will get the "mummy are you crazy" look from him ;-)

Huge variance, I agree - we tried everything going, including real and imaginary candles, but DS was about 6 (or even 7) before he "got" it. I suspect that we could have done nothing and he would have worked it out by himself just as quickly, but I guess we (like everyone) felt we had to try. I cannot remember teaching DD (now 5) at all - she just can .

DD is the same doesn't seem to be able to do it at all. Ds who's 16months seems to be able to though.