Anywho, lots of people (ok, like 4 in total, really) have been asking me about that certain 5.5 year old's meltdown on Brian's birthday. I feel the need to explain something MAJOR....
One week ago while Addie was sleeping, I put a little bit of that anti-nail biting polish on her thumbnail. She's been trying to stop sucking her thumb for a long time now. She doesn't do it at school at all, for fear of being embarrassed (really, isn't that sweet/sad?). She did, however, have that bad boy in her mouth at home the second she became bored/calm/anxious/tired, so as you can imagine it was quite often. She would particularly suck it overnight. So when one considers the fact that the thing that she has self-soothed with for her entire life is gone, it's not hard to realize she may have a harder time than normal in calming herself down over something.
That was the case with Brian's birthday dinner. She got herself so worked up that it seemed virtually impossible for her to realize how she could calm herself down, so it took quite some time (and lots of sassy talk to boot-- from her, not us!).
She's actually been really good without her thumb. Well, she still has her thumb, but you know I mean without having her thumb to suck. The first night she woke up a few times saying "i need water" and smacking her lips like something tasted bad. Then that morning it dawned on her what had happened and we really haven't heard much about it since then.
So, that's why the meltdown happened.
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So have you noticed her trying, when asleep, to suck on her thumb after the first night? Or did the bad taste then impact her unconscious behavior already?
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