Question Posted Saturday October 23 2004, 10:09 am
ok, i have a sister wh ohas these really digusting habits and i dont know how to make her stop. heres what she does:
1)picks at her nose(she dont eat it or anything, just picks at it..eew)
2)chews on her hair(and sometimes pulls it out and chews on it.i think one time she actually swallowed it.)
3)bites her fingernails(not just the nail, but the cuticle and skin around the nail..she'l just bite at it, rip it off, chew it and swallow it.its so wrong!!!)
4)picks at scabs so she can "taste the blood"(enough said )
dinoold answered Sunday October 24 2004, 11:27 am: oh man..that is gross...if you tell her to stop being a sister that will just make her do it more. could you take a picture of her to show her how icky this is? Wait or perhaps a better hobby...
But it sounds to me something is going on in her head and your paresnt need to address this. Pulling hair and picking at scrabs is part of a mental things.she needs some help. [ dinoold's advice column | Ask dinoold A Question ]
tingrin22192 answered Saturday October 23 2004, 9:32 pm: Confront her and say what she's doing is really really gross.
live2rock answered Saturday October 23 2004, 5:04 pm: She sounds really young and if so then just let her be. You probably have some really annoying habits that you just weren't aware of. Most kids do this stuff and she'll grow out of it, probably around the time kids at school start teasing her about it. [ live2rock's advice column | Ask live2rock A Question ]
arlo answered Saturday October 23 2004, 12:03 pm: i used to do the same things when i was a little kid, accept the eating scabs thing, that's REALLY gross. my sisters got me to stop by explaing all of the gross things that are under your nails, in your blood, etc... so that's all i can say about that and i hope this helps. good luck. [ arlo's advice column | Ask arlo A Question ]
xoRachel answered Saturday October 23 2004, 11:46 am: Well how old is she? A lot of times if they're young they do that but it'll go away in time. If she ever picks her nose just hand her a tissue and make sure she uses it. Tell her that if she keeps chewing on her hair it'll get all bunched up in her stomach and she can have stomach problems ((It's probably not true but hey if it scares them it might work lol)). If you paint her nails sometimes they won't want the nail polish to be messed up so they won't bite on their nails anymore. You can use that too and say the stomach tihng. And for the scabs you can tell her that if she keeps picking at them it'll leave scars. Hope I helped! =c)
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