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How to Blow Your Nose
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Okay, this might take the prize for being the most off-topic thread to date, but I’m looking for any suggestions I can find and you ladies always have such great ideas!
Here’s the situation: my youngest (the one with autism) woke up with a nasty cold this morning. She has caught on to the skill of wiping her nose as it drips, but she hasn’t figured out how to blow her nose; and I still haven’t been able to figure out how to teach her to do it after all these years (she’s ten now).
Think about teaching your preschooler or toddler how to blow his/her nose. How did/do you do it? Any tips?
Soyna the only thing I can say is keep trying when we taught ours to blow we would put a napkin on the table and tell them they needed to blow it without using there mouth. So we then in turn taught them how to blow through there noses. Give it a try. Also my boys hated with a passion the nose bulb to suck it out and they would have done anything I think to get me to doing that to them.
This may seem really gross?? But my youngest would rathere “twist/turn”. We twist a kleenex so that it will fit in his nostral and then put it in there and “twist/turn”. It really cleans the inside though not much more.
WOW who thought this would be such a grafic topic? LOL 🙂
Misty
I read somewhere to have them try blowing out a candle with only their nose. This would be fun to practice when they’re not sick, as it could get messy when there may be “results.” It worked with my younger daughter; she learned to blow her nose way earlier than my older daughter because of this trick.
Good Luck!!
Faith 🙂
My son is a master blower! What I recall teaching him is how important it was to hold one nostril closed while blowing the other; and definitely keep the mouth shut! Use both hands.
For example, hold the napkin with both hands up to the nose. Then with the left hand, push the left nostril closed and blow for the right side (rememeber the mouth); then switch. Use the right hand, pushing the right nostril closed and blow.
My DD also has trouble, but I do help her with the holding of one nostril at a time. If she’s icky about stuff, only use one kleenex per blow.
Rachel
Sonya,
I’m sure you remember our talk when you came to Charleston in the fall. My daughter had this same issue and unfortunately still does(at 15). On the up side she doesn’t get sick very often or complain about the stuffy nose. One thing we did try to get her to blow through her nose was a nose whistle. We got one from her speech therapist. I have no idea where else to find one. Again, something to do when they are well. I hope things work out and she figures this out. We’re not there yet.
Jone
Yes, I remember you, Jone, and our talk about the challenges we face with our special ones. Glad you’re on the forum.
What a great idea! We “just happen to have” some nose flutes that a missionary friend gave us from Brazil. I’ll have to see if I can borrow one from a sibling (and sanitize it, of course 🙂 ).
On a positive note (no pun intended), youngest one’s cold has abated and her nose is clear now. So we can start working on this new/old skill. Hmm, still debating how to list it in my CM Organizer . . . 😉
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