Tongue out to concentrate/when excited

[beej15]

Hi - I am a new mum of almost 4 weeks although my daughter is 13 months old. She is healthy, babbling and starting to say a few words but she does love to have her toungue out when she is concentrating or excited by activity. Should I be worried about this? It is not constant, and she has no issues eating or otherwise - it does make tooth cleaning difficult though!

My DD1's friend does this a lot, she is now 3.5 yrs, doesn't seem to be a problem, although she does get chapped bottom lip a lot in the cold, not sure if it from this.

It's normal. Lots and lots of adults do it!

Ds1 and ds2 do this. Dh still does it too sometimes.

I do it when concentrating particularly hard on something and my dd (3y 7m) does it too!

ds2 sticks his between his teeth when he goes to sleep
kinds of sucks it, like a bottle refelx thing

My dad aged 74 does it when concentrating and always has done {as far as I know}

He is now retired but was a History teacher and is very intelligent. So perhaps it is a sign of intelligence,

Thanks all - feel much reassured! Actually DH does it too - perhaps she's learning from him

Loads of my pupils do this too - and theya re secondary. It just means they are engrossed in what they are doing.

How many of us have our mouths open when doing mascara and amake up, for example? Similar thing!

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