Don’t suck your thumb, you’ll wreck your teeth.
I’m still a danger to myself some days, I’m sure. My mom wasn’t right about a lot, but I’ll give her points for that one. FYI, my daughter STILL remembers the one time I swatted her on the butt (through a padded diaper) because she wanted to put her hand on a hot kettle on the stove. Guess I’m a horrible parent, too. 
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What was a baby still in diapers doing that high up on a hot stove? Or wasn’t the kettle on the stove. I’m just saying it made me mistrust my instincts, made me all the more dependent which they hated.
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She was about two and half years old and still toilet training. She was exactly twenty-four inches long when born and had no trouble reaching things on the stove when she was two, believe me. Her current dilemna is that she was offered several summer jobs by people who thought she was fifteen going on sixteen, then they discovered that she is actually fourteen. The government grants for summer students don’t let you hire that young despite her being their first choice in three cases. In the meantime, she turned down several other jobs she may have liked because she thought she had the other ones. Now all that are left are scuzzy retail positions at hell holes like Tim Horton’s. I’ve got a depressed kid on my hands today.
She sounds like an up and coming kid. I worked at a root beer stand when I was 14 so maybe she could waitress.
I used to suck my thumb. And I got told the same thing, that it would ruin my teeth. They stick out a tiny bit at the front but they aren’t horrible teeth.
It turned out to be an old wives tale about ruining teeth but anyway it is self soothing to a baby and orthodontists are a lot less expensive than psychiatrists as someone pointed out.
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