Almost all kids pick their noses. So I’m not (that) embarassed to say my four-year old Caitlyn is an occasional nose-spelunker.
To help her see how this looks to other people, I made up a story about a girl called Sandy Greenfinger… a girl who starts losing friends due to her habit. her finger gets stuck in her nose for days. Then in frustration while she’s trying to sprinkle some pepper on her food, she sneezes her finger back out… “and she never picked her nose again. And they all lived happily ever after.”
It worked for a few days. We were at Disney on Ice “Worlds of Fantasy” at Comcast Arena in Everett (a lot of fun by the way, big thanks to Jeff and Julie Mitchell for the tickets), as she was watching the show, she started again. We gave her tissues, but still…
So I made up a little song that I sang on the way home (she laughed a lot):
Oh, please don’t bring her
Sandy Greenfinger
Is there an issue
With using a tissue?
I asked for a yes
and I got nose
Oh, please, please don’t bring her
Sandy Greenfinger…
