How do I teach nose-blowing?

[Dannie]

How do I teach DS to blow his nose? His nose-picking is driving me insane, but he's not going to stop unless I can teach him a more aesthetic way of getting the stuff out of his nose. I've tried telling him to breathe in and then blow the breath out through his nose, but he's not getting it. He's 5 and about to go into year 1, and I feel it's time I stopped following him around brandishing a tissue (especially as I'm pregnant with #3, who'll arrive in the middle of the colds season!!)

teach him to blow a candle out with his mouth shut through his nose.he wont be able to do it but he will pick up the drift of it.I wouldn't do it when he's got a cold tho.

Snot thread

I asked this a while ago so this might help

I read recently that nose-blowing increases sinus infections and should be discouraged so I'm teaching dd to wipe hers without blowing.

To stop my little one from using her sleeve (yuck), we bought some of those nice pictures tissues and kept a box in every room - out of her reach but near enough to remind her and be able to point and ask for them. She loves the Pooh Bear ones and really helps to stop the less pleasant habits they pick up. (My little girl has Bob the Builder plastic models and developed the habit of using the Bird?s beak with the flat nub end as a nose picker!! - how vile is that!!)

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think we'll try snorting at candles as today's after school activity. May not be quite as popular as the day we went to the car breaker's to look for a new wing mirror, but it'll make a change from practising spellings

taught DS to "make a noise like a horse" with demo of course!! did work though

When your ds has a snotty nose, get him to put a finger on one of his nostrils (not in it!) and press hard so that nostril closes. Then tell him to blow out through the other with his mouth closed. Into a handkerchief - of course!

haven't tried this one, but one of my friends told me that asking her child to "sniff down" did it for her.