Hi
I have a 3 year old with no siblings at home. She attends nursery full-time and is therefore subject to all forms of influence from other toddlers.
As a baby - as early as I remember - she was an orally-fixated child. She drove me to the end of myself with removing all forms of foreign objects from her mouth. Occasionally, her habit subsided to occasionally childish tomfoolery when it came to putting things in her mouth or merely 'tasting/licking' things.
However, at 3.5 years old, her oral-fixation has taken a surge in the wrong direction and it seems every other time I look at her, there is something - usually a small plastic object - in her mouth! It has become an obsession and is turning me into a shouting mother! I am going crazy - she has already gagged on a plastic lego brick once when she 'fell' with it in her mouth.
What do I do? Is 'behaviour reversion' normal? the habit is as bad as it was when she was 6 months old!