How do parents stop kids stop sucking their thumb or picking their nose? Careful, you may accidentally make things worse, says Triple P’s Professor Matt Sanders.
It’s not difficult for kids to develop habits like finger-sucking and hair-twirling, but once they become established it can be a bit of a challenge to change them.
One of the problems is that the very things parents may do to try to stop the habit could actually be reinforcing it. What’s the answer? Well, read this to see if you’re on the right track…
