My daughter has the most disgusting habits

to much information - lol

This was as much a venting sessions as it was to see who would actually read this and respond. I mean the title is disgusting habits - what did you expect?

And I edited what I could have actually written and described.

I have heard of little kids even eating their feces, although I am not sure about what age this behavior stops. If you are worried, why don't you discuss it with your pediatrician?

just kidding you !! as Art L said "kids say and do the darnest things"

Just before I left the office, a good friend called. He's feeling very lucky that his job allows him the opportunity to pick his older daughter (just under 2) from daycare.

He arrived, parked, and walked to the play area. C was there, bundled up in her snow suit, facing the play area. He called out her name. She turned around, her left index finger jammed firmly up her nose.

"Beth, I was so proud, and you know, I always suspected she'd be left-handed."




I just about fell out of my chair laughing.

Gha! That's nasty! Have you told your doctor about it?

I worked as a nanny during my college years. I never had a diaper raider, but two of the kids would wipe their snot all over the furniture and pets.

I am not worried about her at all. She is being a two year old. Typically with the poopy thing she yells as soon as she touches it and says yecky! I think this is her way of getting immediate attention and believe me it works! Luckily the poopy thing seems to be a stage as this is already decreasing. I think she is as disgusted by it as I am.

The snot thing – hopefully is isolated. I did explain to her not to do it again, but we’ll see.

My son did exactly the same thing and it's not as minor an issue as you might think. It prevented my boy from pledging a good fraternity.

Since I am not a proponent of frats and similar groups, I consider this a good thing.

well then, silver lining, glass half full, God has a plan, lemonade from lemons, everything's wonderful.

I love a happy ending.

I suppose kids do natural things,we'd(grown ups)maybe still do it if wew wernt told not to.

Exactly what are you inferring material girl? <washing hands with anti bacterial soap>

That we would all act NATURALLY if we hadn been 'programmed' by society not to do certain things.(licking my feet clean with my tongue)

You can lick your feet with your tongue? May I call you next time I'm in town?

I made that bit up, tho Ive never actually tried to do it so I may able to!!

I read in a psychiatric dictionary once that money and clay stand for our relationship with feces as young children.

You might say that producing feces are a child's first act of creation, and they're proud of it. It seems that if you make too big a fuss about a child playing with feces, it could affect him for life. The imlication is that being deprived of his creation, he grows up obscessed with obtaining large sums of money, greedy in other words. The other part about clay being a stand-in for feces disturbs me a bit since I'm a potter, the disturbing part being that I don't make much money, but the good part being that clay smells so much better than feces.

As far as sticking her finger up his nose, it's OK so long as she doesn't do it while driving over a bumpy road. Ouch! Boogers on the window and feces on a crib don't seem to me to be that big a problem. Maybe you have a cleanliness issue. Let the kid be a kid. Kids and animals don't worry about sh#t like that, and neither should you. But then I used to be a zookeeper, which, in the end, is pretty much like child rearing.

Newborn children are little more than helpless snakes; they're all alimentary canal, because that's the only part of their nervous systems that functions totally for a couple of years. The only way they can express themselves is through the alimentary canal. Babies cry, spit up, get colic, diarrhea, etc., and it takes a few years before their musculature kicks in adequately and many more years for the intellect to fully develop. Any trauma—such as making a huge fuss over feces—that occurs in early childhood is expressed through the alimentary canal, and that pattern continues throughout life.