Nadav loves a good tissue. Actually, any tissue will do. He's not quite crawling, but when he spots an unattended tissue on the floor, that kid scootches so fast he's got little fast cartoon lines coming out of him. He likes to crumple it, then shove it in his mouth until it starts to dissolve.
Now, I know you're probably thinking I should take the tissue out of his hands. Or his mouth, if it's gotten to that point already. But, you know, when you forbid something to a child, it just makes it all that more enticing. Before we know it, he'll be grabbing tissues when he thinks we're not looking; then it's just a slippery slope to sneaking out at night to score some tissues or hoarding them when he's at a friend's house.
So I think it's better to let him have some tissues here, in his own home, where I can supervise the grabbing and munching. I don't want to think about him loose on the streets, scootching around, frantically searching for a tissue.
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Think like a baby - here I am with my tiny little hands. I can't really grab anything for long. And here are these nice, pretty, fluffy things all over the place. Not only can I grab them, I can rip the heck out of them. Just please let me show that I can do something as destructive as what the other people in this house do. I mean it's not like I'm tearing apart books. OOH, books! There's one now......they'll never notice me....heh heh heh.....
Maybe you can get the family together for an intervention?
You're right kathleen. Our first step is to get him to admit he has a problem.
think of tissues as sugarless cotton candy and then theyre practicaly healthy, no? still waiting for your child rearing book.
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