Nose-picking

Good morning everyone! I realize the topic of my post is really gross, but I just have to ask: How do you break your children of picking their noses and eating their boogers?? I’ve told them how gross it is and about all the germs, and it doesn’t help at all! My ds-almost-6 and dd 4 1/2 are equally bad about this habit. Just this morning, I looked up and my dd clearly had something in her mouth. When I asked her what it was, she stuck her tongue out and there was a booger on the end of her tongue. I promptly told her how gross that was and made her get a tissue. That’s just one example of many that I could share…but I’ll spare you the rest.

Another bad habit that my ds has is biting his nails. He’s sneaky though–he only bites his nails when he’s laying in bed at night, so I can’t ever catch him.

If you have any practical advice, suggestions, or consequences I could use to enforce the breaking of these habits, I’d really appreciate it. Hope everyone has a happy day!