Deep thoughts

A recent morning, Reesa was flat on her back on the bathroom, looking up contemplatively at the ceiling. With her finger up her nose. She had just figured out one of the great mysteries of her three year old life.

"I think... there's a bug in my tummy that makes the buggers in my nose."

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There's all sorts of parental advice for dealing with nose-picking children. A sampling of what is on the internet:

• the behavioral emphasis--http://www.parentkidsright.com/pt-nosepicking.html
• the medical emphasis--http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/badhabit.htm#nose
• the at-the-child's level emphasis--http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/yucky/booger.html

Common themes are humidifiers, vaseline, and reminders that nosepicking is not socially acceptable. I think that I can try those three and see where we get.