Thumb sucking at nearly 8 - remove cuddle blanket?

[OnlyInBerkshire]

My daughter is nearly 8 and still heavily reliant on her cuddle blanket, and an obsessive thumb sucker. I tell her a dozen times a day to put the blanket back in her room and take her thumb out of her mouth, but every time I turn around, it's back. The bitter nail-paint stuff has little effect. The thumb sucking and the blanket are absolutely intertwined. I don't want to take the blanket away altogether but the thumb sucking had to stop. Any advice please? 😬

Assuming you've tried rewards etc, have you considered a fabric cover for thumbsuckers? My niece has one and you can wear them for bed. You can get jazzy patterns as well.

Can you say the blanket is only for bedtime and during the day put it on a high shelf that she can't reach.

She'll give up both in her own time, when she's ready. I myself didn't stop thumb sucking until I was ten & grew out of it. I honestly think it would be unkind to force this.

My ten year old still sucks her thumb. No idea how you stop it. I've tried everything. Hate nagging her.

Yes blanket away and just for bed.

To stop thumbsucking - sock on each hand taped around wrist with micropore tape it wasn't nice but it was either that or £250 for a thumb guard! DD then had to stroke her cuddly bunny with her feet.

Made sure the youngest one had a dummy after that experience far less traumatic all around!

I don't intend to stop my DD thumb sucking- she's nearly 7. She'll stop when she is ready. We don't allow her comfort toy out of her room though which limits the thumb sucking to night time.

My DD is 9.5 and still sucks her thumb. I took away "silkie" the comfort blanket a couple of years ago having successfully relegated it to nightyime only use but the sucking has continued.

I've tried the nail paint and "thumbsies" but no luck. The latter looked to be working for a day or two despite her nibbling the ends but then she worked out how to work her thumb free and we were back to square one.
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DS (8) still has his blankie-and numerous cuddliest in bed as he is obsessed with them. I don't see the harm if it brings him comfort and allows him to sleep peacefully.
He also has his blankie is he's under the weather.
Am sure he will drop it at some time when he no longer has a need. Though DS (11) has his favourite cuddly in bed, as do all his friends when they come for sleepovers

Yes I also made sure my second had a dummy and that was easily got rid of! I'm very pro dummies!

It's not cuddlies that's the issue it's the thumb sucking! It often creates orthodontic issues.

The dummy naturally gets too small to suck around 7/8 where a thumb is the perfect fit for life...

Exactly @RandomMess - I'm fine with her having the blanket til she takes it with her to Uni if she wants, but the constant thumb sucking is already giving her buck teeth and if she doesn't stop now it'll be braces at snr school 😕

When we cracked DD was sort of on board after a chat with the orthodontist and being shown what a fixed thumb guard would look like.

We duly taped socks around hands and she had to stroke her cuddly with her feet. We got there in a few weeks or so.

Cuddly rabbit still spends every night with her at 15