What’s something most people don’t know about you?.#Dailywritingprompt. #Fingersucking. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org.

Sometimes it is good to ask an intriguing question. And this question sounds like it. Something that most people don’t know about me are as follows: Fingers sucking as a kid and shyness as a young girl . I used to suck my two left fingers ( index and middle fingers)when I was young.It took my parents a long time before they stopped me from sucking my fingers. My parents thought that I have stopped. I equally believe that I have stopped sucking my fingers until when were invited to tell folklore story on television 📺 many years ago. My late mother was the organizer and this was in Nigeria. As she told the story and sing all the children were to bring out the hands as if they are flying and replied ” kpa ayolo mama mmadu ma egwe kpa ayolo mama”. She looked around to make sure that all kids were doing the same thing. Apparently all the kids were not because I was busy sucking my fingers. So she hit me on my fingers and it went viral. I was caught off guard, disappointed embarrassed and ashamed of myself. I felt humiliated.

We returned home and she asked for my father’s opinion. My father asked her why did you hit her on her fingers?. That is wrong and humiliated. You should have ignored her and disciplined her later.My mom asked how did you know that I hit her ?.He replied when you hit her fingers it went viral.As from that day onward they did everything including beating me ,rubbing pepper on my fingers to make sure that I stopped sucking my fingers. I did eventually stop.As for the shyness it went away but not completely.

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Hi please don’t judge me.What did you do as a child that nobody know about but you?.

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The American Dental Association and American Academy of Pediatricians/Dentists made some recommendations that kids should stop sucking their fingers between the ages of two years and four years. Finger sucking is not good and can affect the gums and teeth especially after kids have developed permanent teeth.Fingers sucking has a soothing and calming effects. Some children will stop on her own. But some children will develop the habit of sucking their fingers until much later. Talk with your doctor on how to prevent or stop your children from sucking their fingers.

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