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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
S/O Changing a child's habits
My brother sucked his thumb until he was ~8 years old. He did it in class even. No one really made fun of him and he just stopped on his own. I find it weird that he didn't care. But he's kind of like that.
And I'm the one who needed braces. 
Re: S/O Changing a child's habits
My BFF sucked her thumb/fingers until she was about 11. Some idiot teacher wanted to hold her back for it, but luckily her mom didn't think much of that idea. The other kids never bothered her about it - it was just an oral fixation (she later smoked and chewed pens).
Bacon still thumbsucks, usually when she's soothing herself or when she's deep in thought. It doesn't seem to have killed her yet, so I'm not worried.
I sucked my middle two fingers on my right hand and twirled my hair with my left. I stopped sucking my fingers when I got braces in 3rd grade, but to this day I twirl my hair. Usually it's without even noticing it. It drives H crazy, but my grandmother thinks it's cute.
Anyway, my mom always says the worst parenting advice she ever got was not to use pacifiers because they're so hard to wean from. Thousands of dollars in orthodontia later, she says you can take a pacifier away a lot easier than you can remove fingers or thumbs.
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I didn't lose my first tooth till 3rd grade.
And sucking doesn't cause tooth problems - I mean, I guess it could, but I needed thousands of dollars in orthodontia, and I didn't suck anything. No pacis, no thumb, no fingers - not till I was a teenager and discovered cigarettes. Bacon's teeth are all perfectly fine at the moment, as well - she didn't change the shape of her mouth or anything by sucking. I have a feeling that's a wives' tale, frankly.
the tooth problem is mostly a load of BS.
it CAN cause it but it usally doesn't.
I never sucked and I had nearly 10 years worth of orthadontia.
my older sis sucked her thumb until...well, honestly, I won't say but it was much older than 8. I'm fairly sure she still does when she's stressed.
My baby sis was born w/ a blister on her thumb from sucking in utero...
They both have perfect teeth.