Help! Unsociable habits

[Guest]

Does anyone have any top tips for stopping children from picking their noses? Sorry about this post, not the nicest to read, but things are getting desperate - no matter what I say or how I explain, I just can't seem to stop this horrible habbit; I have about 6 or 7 children who whilst sitting on the carpet (or indeed during any activity), have their finger up their nose and then wipe it in their clothes, on the carpet or on the furniture !! PLEASE HELP - ALL ADVICE WELCOME.

[Upsy Daisy]

I deal with this a bit like the way I deal with hands down trousers.

 

I consistently and persistently send them to get a tissue to blow their nose and then send them to wash their hands...every single time. I then send them to get a clean tissue for next time. They eventually get sick of having to wash their hands and start using their tissue appropriately.

[Panders]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/get-well-soon/songs/get-well-soon-a-picky-problem/

 

Hope this will play - don't think it will solve your problem, I was just intrigued that there was a programme dedicated to this habit in this series, and this is the song they sang to go with it!

[apple]

catchy videoPanders but it says nothing about eating it!! which is what some wee ones in my group do :o :o

[wellerkaren]

I have read the book DIrty Berty with the children in the pass, and this has seemed to have helped.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone!

Upsy Daisy, I do this - but perhaps not as consistently as I should; sometimes we're in mid flow singing and by the end of the song the child has finished 'the business' and joining in nicely so I let the moment pass without comment - perhaps I need to stop the song and direct the child to the tissues!

Wellerkaren, I'll give Dirty Bertie a go and thanks for the 'picky problem' Panders - I'll try that too, it should prompt whole group discussion. :1b

[lashes2508]

hands on your head, hands behind your back, fold your hands together and put them in your lap ! may work or failing that how about giving the children a fiddle toy whilst sitting for longer periods or a peg for their nose - no fingers can get up there then that last bit was a joke

[Cait]

go and sit over there with your back to everyone if you are going to do that. Nobody wants to see that, thank you.

[bubblejack]

I deal with this the same as Upsy Daisy and I also mention it to their parents in the hope that they will deal with it at home as well.

[Guest]

I wish it were as easy as that! My son constantly has his finger up his nose and then in his mouth. I make him wash his hands, wipe his nose etc but it makes no difference. Nursery do the same on the days he goes there I think. He's 2.5 years old.

I do love Get Well Soon though. The poo song is my favouite!

[SueFinanceManager]

I used to get the children to all get rid of their fidgets before story time and modelled hands in laps when we had finished shaking off our fidgets and I read 'Don't do that' by Tony Ross alot...in this story Nellie has a stunningly pretty nose, but she just can't resist picking it! Finally she goes too far up and her finger gets stuck! Everyone has a go at prising her finger out, from firemen to scientists, but this only makes Nellie's nose longer, sorer and uglier! Can anyone get Nellie's finger free?

 

Once finished used to talk about what a unhygienic thing nose picking is etc