This is getting frusterating, how do I..

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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 1:50pm

How do I teach a 3 yr old to blow her nose????


I am completly serious. How do you get them to do it? Belle refuses. She won't blow out of her nostrils, she keeps sniffing in when I put the tissue up to her nose. I've tried showing her, and nothing is working. She has the sniffles and I am tired of her getting clogged up with no way of getting it all out. Any brilliant ideas?

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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 2:38pm
When Havyn refuses to blow her nose I pull out the bulb syringe.
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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 2:58pm

Yeah, I've whipped out the bulb syringe too. Also, I can sometimes get them to do it by saying "Blow all the way to Grandma's house" or something stupid like that, to let them know to blow OUT. We just went through this with both my 3 year-olds and their horrible snotty colds last week. Jenna was worse than Tessa, and I couldn't get her to do it much, and the bulb syringe was also a fight with her but I managed to get it up her nose by telling her it would hurt her if she didn't hold still.

My girls were totally booger-ridden and gross all last week! We've had the worst cold over here at my house!

Sofia




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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 2:58pm

"She's going to be the only girl in HS with a bulb syringe in her back pack!

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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 3:01pm
LOL they'd be a great pair!
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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 3:24pm

LMBO!! Can I throw my 2 in?? They'll not only have bulb syringes and pull-ups (since they won't poop in the potty), but Tessa will wear a size 4 ballet skirt over her clothes, and Jenna will still be sucking her 2 middle fingers and twisting the finger on her other hand up in her hair. Maybe we should send all 4 of them to some boarding school somewhere when they hit puberty.

It's pretty funny we all have DDs the same age.

Sofia




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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 3:26pm
LOL!!! Do we have to wait that long to send them to boarding school???
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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 3:29pm
you can't forget Havyn and her mangled thumb from sucking it.
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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 3:39pm

Jenna's 2 fingers are calloused at the joint, too! OMG, that's too funny! And they have to have lullabyes sung to them before they'll sleep at night. I'll send them off with a CD of Michael singing to them, ROFLOL!! It'll be shipped with all their My Little Ponies and Barbies.

Maybe we should found the boarding school and send them when they turn 4. We'll have only non-mushy food served. But if they have school uniforms, they'll have to be dresses, or Tessa will have a screaming fit every morning.

We should call them The Fearsome Foursome!! LOL!

Sofia




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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 4:49pm

My almost 7 year old has a difficult time with same task!!

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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 10:19pm

Yeah, Lesley, if you figure that one out, could you please let me know ? lol - Colt actually blows into the kleenex - blows like from his mouth ? So not amusing. And he adds sound effects and thinks it hilarious...sigh...so update me if you succeed please !

;)

~Liz~

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