Watch a TV show where a character has to break a habit, and then talk with your child about doing the same. Also a strategy used for aggressive nail biters, bad-tasting polish applied to the fingers can deter a thumb sucker.
But for kids who are motivated to stop and just need a quick reminder not to suck, one taste of this stuff can keep them on track. If you notice your child only sucks their thumb before bedtime, they may just need another way to wind down and prepare for sleep.
You may want to try offering a warm cup of milk or a toddler-safe herbal tea before nighttime teeth brushing. Still, some kids are highly motivated by a visual representation of their progress like stickers or small tokens , and the opportunity to earn prizes or privileges for every day they go without sucking their thumb.
Related: Creating a behavior chart. There are many kits available online designed to physically prevent your child from sucking their thumb.
Some are plastic , while others are more like flexible gloves. Your child still gets to do it, but will hopefully need it less and less over time.
If your child has a favorite stuffed animal or toy, use it to your advantage! Pretend that Teddy wants to stop sucking his thumb. Ask your child if they can help Teddy by setting a good example and offering suggestions. Try tying a bow or elastic band around their thumb not too tight! Make a dentist appointment and ask the pro to talk with your little one about taking good care of their mouth and teeth.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics , all babies are born with an intense need to suck. Thumbsucker Directed by Mike Mills. Sony Pictures Classics. Already a subscriber? After permanent teeth come in, sucking may cause problems with the proper growth of the mouth and alignment of the teeth. It can also cause changes in the roof of the mouth. Pacifiers can affect the teeth essentially the same ways as sucking fingers and thumbs, but it is often an easier habit to break.
I have focused on Justin, but really the movie is equally about the adult characters, who all seem to have lacked adequate parenting themselves. We talk about the tragedy of children giving birth to children; maybe that can happen at any age. Certainly Justin and Audrey look and behave a lot alike, and certainly Mike distances himself from his wife's obsessions with other men; perhaps having failed in an early dream of playing pro sports, he has felt inadequate ever since.
Then there is the matter of Rebecca, who is willing to go so far and no further with Justin. She has chosen him for sexual foreplay because "I need to educate myself" and Justin seems to have runway skills without all the dangers associated with a pilot's license. The movie contains many of the usual ingredients of teenage suburban angst tragicomedies, but writer-director Mike Mills , who began with a novel by Walter Kirn , uses actors who can riff; Swinton and D'Onofrio are so peculiarly exact as their characters that we realize Audrey and Mike are supposed to be themselves in every scene, and are never defined only as "Justin's parents.
Or maybe not. In a lot of movies, you'd know one way or the other, but Audrey has free will and Swinton plays her as if neither one of them has looked ahead in the screenplay. Keanu Reeves, too, makes more of the orthodontist than what we'd expect. He comes up with a Val Kilmeresque detachment from the very qualities that made him famous, and when he apologizes for "hippie psychobabble," he doesn't even need to smile.
There is some symbology in the movie, involving a construction site and Kelli's interest in ecology, but the movie is not really interested in saving the environment, it's interested in characters who say they are interested in the environment because, after all, who isn't, or shouldn't be? A subject like that functions as the foreground in suburban angst conversations: You talk about ecology because it shows you are good as a tree and, especially in Justin's case, high as the sky. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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