sucking my thumb

When I was young, my grandmother always told me if I sucked my thumb my teeth would fall out. The day I went for my first dental appointment she pulled her dentures out and said take these for a checkup. I promise, thumbsucking ended immediately. Boy I miss her. What could she tell my bugar picking daughter?

Kelly

i though that if u suck your thumb you color of your skin will go away. I also though it would shirnk so i always mesured it everyday but still I didnt care , my dad always told me that if I kept sucking it my thumb would come off,i was kinda scared but then i just didnt care and today i still suck my thumb and is very amusing and kinda tasty even though it doesnt have a "special taste" that i can tell you.

silly sucker

It was either my Mother or Grandmother who told me when I was very young that if I didn't stop sucking my thumb, it would make my thumbs go flat. They did! Of course, it may just be genetics, but it still didn't stopped me and now I'm 26! Who needs round thumbs anyway?

Silverchild

my granndma said my thum will shrivell into nothing if i suck it so one day i tried it and my thum shrivellled because it was wet i never did it again

brody

I used to suck my thumb whilst rubbing cotton wool on my nose (bit wierd). A teacher at school told me that I was inhaling all the cotton wool fibres which would suffocate me during the night. I didn't believe her until one night I had a terrible chest infection. I remember waking up screaming because I thought I was going to die from sucking my thumb! Eek, gives me shivers even now.

Sally Older

My parents use dto tell me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would have buck teeth and everyone would laugh at me. Well my teeth are just fine and though people do laugh, they are laughing with me not at me. I am 21 and still suck my thumb. Thanks mom and dad... love you too. :)

Racheal

when i was 6 i used to suck on my thumb still.i dont know y it was a habbit.so in order to get me to stop my mom told me if i keep sucking my thumb i will have a huge hole in my thumb.i got so scared i stoped. i dont beieve that anymore though.

Brittney

I used to have a major problem with sucking my thumb. Well one day my dad got annoyed with it and told me a story.. "If you suck it too much, you will gnaw off the skin on your thumb and only your bones will be left!!!!" Well that night I immediatly wrapped a sock around my hand and slept with my hand under my pillow to resist the urge!.. I am proud to admit that I havent sucked my thumb since then!:P

Wentworth

My dad told me that my thumb would shrink if I kept sucking it, so for years I would measure it against the other one and as the size was always the same I just carried on sucking it until I was about 15

Anon

I thought my thumb could get smaller when I sucked on it

Maria

When I was little I sucked my thumb non stop and my mom told me that if I didn't that the dentist would have to put a rake in my mouth to fix my teeth. I thought my mom meant a real rake, not the orthadontic one.

Maddie

I used to believe that if you'd suck your thumb too much,your thumb would eventually fall off.

Pkay

I refused to suck my thumb when I was younger. I thought what I would suck my thumbnail off and I would bleed to death.

Anon

When i was little, I sucked my right thumb. One day, it got slammed in a door. It hurt too bad to suck, so my mom told me to suck my left thumb. I tried it and made a yucky face. My mom asked me what was wrong. I told her it tasted like strawberries. She asked what the good one tasted like. I said chocolate.

Laura

I never sucked my thumb, I sucked my pointer and middle finger...Then my mom told me that smart people didn't suck their thumb but their middle and pointer fingers...that made me feel good.

SillyGirlKristIZZLE!

When I was in 1st grade a girl had caught me sucking my thumb. She told me that if i sucked my thumb a snake would grow in my stomach.

Sarah

I sucked my thumb until I was 9 yrs old. For most of that time, I really believed that water came out of my thumb when I sucked it. I used to argue with my mother about it, when she teased me about it.

Kristie