Put that nail polish on their thumb nail that stops you from chewing nails.

They will give it up when they are ready. My parents tried everything to make me give up thumbsucking but they couldn’t until I was ready to do so myself. My 8yo was also a thumbsucker. He seemed to give it up completely between 4-5.

Cool! This was interesting reading the answers to this!

I was a secret thuMB sucker til I was TEN !!! I only stopped because I had to go to a sleep over and was scared Id be caught out .. So I’m not sure how you stop

I sucked my thumb until I was 6. My parents tried everything Stop and Grow, a bandaid, mercuricone (when it was around). Nothing worked. I grew out of it.

Just cut off there thumb. – joking, honestly you can’t stop it, they will in there own time. My nephew is 5 and at school and still sucks his thumb on the odd occasion your baby will grow out of it, 🙂

Thought that I would look at these responses as this will become an issue for my little one (not worried at the moment as he is only just 2).

Try putting a bandaid on his thumb so it’s less appealing.

I hope you had goodluck trying to stop this. I never could

Hope you managed to find the answer you were looking for.

carry around a toy maybe that they could suck on?

How are you going now?

Not sure on this one – I have a 6 year old thumb sucker of my own.

As long as his thumb is not cracked and red raw, then put some no more bite stuff on his nails-it tastes awfully bitter.

Trying the yucky tasting nail polish could help, it is worth a shot.

Have you had any progress?

Rach has some great info there. Hope things are going well

I heard the bad tasting nail polish is a good one

You can always put the nail polish you can get from the pharmacy that is gross tasting and that may stop it?

Hope that helps 🙂 good luck