This book is helping my daughter stop thumb-sucking

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	• The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit (First Time Books(R)) Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain Random House Books for Young Readers, 1987 - 32 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

child guidance is suggested

i find the berenstain bears book collection educational. this one was (surprisingly) an eye-opener for me as a parent as well. i followed the tip given here to stop my child from bitting his fingernails - and it worked.

First Berenstain Bear book I ever got

My parents got me this when I was three to make me stop biting my nails. Sixteen years later I still bite my nails like crazy but I have a huge collection of Berenstain Bear books and read them to kids! I disagree with someoen saying this book was difficult for kids to understand. Maybe if they don't have any habits like mentioned in the book, but most Berenstain Bear books are simple.

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Reward Jar

Sister Bear bites her nails. She finds it hard to quit. An idea is come up that every time she does not bite her nails, she gets money put into a jar. Then that money is hers to keep.

This book is helping my daughter stop thumb-sucking

I gave this book five stars because, more than any other technique we've tried, it has helped my daughter stop sucking her thumb. Now four years old, she had been sucking her thumb since she was about six months old. We've tried rewards, sticker charts, threatening loss of privileges, talking with the dentist, the works. Nothing worked. This book, in three weeks, has taken my daughter's bad habit from an all-day activity to just one she does in her sleep. We're still applying the principles from the book, in hopes that it even eradicates the sleep-time habit as well. In any case, I could not be happier that we read this book together.

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It helped as part of a bigger strategy

The book is about the habit of nail biting although we used it to discuss quitting the thumb-sucking habit. It's a nice way to talk to your kid about how hard it is to break a bad habit. And it gave me, as the parent, an idea for how to reward daily efforts, rather than total success.

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With help from Mama and Papa (who get a little advice from Grizzly Gran), Sister Bear learns to stop her nervous nail biting before it turns into a bad habit.

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