My son won't stop sucking his thumb/finger! Help!

My brother used to have the same problem. Mind you he never did it with his fingers. It was always his thumbs. My mom put Tabasco sauce on them and that helped. Mind you now he doesn't like tabasco sauce and doesn't care for anything like hot peppers or anything spicy. But in your case it might be worth it then. You have to get him off that habit or it will cost you done the road.

I think those methods are cruel to a child, and probably not very healthy. My daughter sucked her thumb until she was 11 years old. There was a connection with sucking her thumb and her favourite stuffed animal. I urged her to stop but she didn't want to. Then came a point where she felt like a baby so she put the stuffed animal on the shelf and stopped sucking her thumb. It was her decision and I didn't even know she was doing it. I would never have resorted to putting hot sauce on her thumb! That would just have your kid crying more with nothing to comfort him/her. I would rather her suck her thumb than a pacifier. I've seen kids sucking pacifiers long after they could talk and couldn't talk properly because of it. Thankfully neither one of my daughters took to pacifiers. Find something else to give your son comfort and maybe he will stop sucking his thumb.

Wipe hot sauce on his hands. One taste of that stuff and he will not think twice about sucking anything on his hand ever again. Just kidding. I wish I could help. Have you tried the search engines?