Thumb sucking

I wouldn't worry about it yet. My daughter sucked her thumb until she was 5 1/2. People used to say to me "you don't see grown ups sucking their thumbs, she'll grow out of it!" But I had seen adults sucking their thumbs. Not in public admitedly, but whilst they were sleeping. Personally I find it disturbing. She was nearly out of the habit at 3yo, but her father and I went through a very messy divorce and I guess she went back to it for comfort. I found, the more I paid attention to it and made a deal out of it (even just by telling her to take it out), the more she seemed to do it. Is your daughter at school yet? That's when my daughter stopped. It was halfway through her first year at school and I guess the other kids and teacher may have said something to her, but she just seemed to stop. I also encouraged it with a reward. I told her that she could have any Barbie doll she wanted, if she stopped sucking her thumb FOREVER. And I left it at that. When she stopped, I came through with my promise. I don't know how much help this is to you, but good luck with it.

hi i know some of my cousins that used to thumb suck when they where little and all of them outgrew this habit, the only solution is to stop making the child stop to thumb suck because continually reminding them not to do it is also reminding them of the reflex to thumb suck, my suggestion is to try to focus them to other things that they might like to play with that requires both thier hands that way the habit will slowly fade away.