How to stop sucking your thumb

27 Nov 2022

Paige asks

How to get my teenage nephew to stop sucking his thumb?

I’m reading all the comments to him btw, no need to censor he’s got a potty mouth.

Yes he knows it’s satire, but he finds this group hilarious !

My answer

Oh, loads of ways. The standard approach is to disincentivise nephews worldwide from

Could you not behead him? It's a tad difficult to suck on something when you don't have a mouth. Then again, if he's that tenacious, I'm sure he'd figure out a way to apply suction from one or more of his remaining orifices. You'll have to amputate those too.

That said, maybe we've got him all wrong! I've been assuming all along that his thumb-suck motivation are simple pleasure. Maybe it's pain. Maybe it's self-flagellation. Maybe he's a member of that wacky religious cult in The Da Vinci Code, Opus Dei,

Original: https://mikeyclarke.co.nz/blog/2022/11/how-to-stop...

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