sucking my thumb

My gran once told me that if I didn't stop sucking my fingers, they would get smaller and smaller like a lollipop.

Being inquisitive, I just sucked them more to see if she was right.

Simon

my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!

lv

i used to think that if i didn't suck my finger i would die. so i carried on for ages and now i have a wartish thing on my thumb and sometimes when i don't reolize i find my thumb in my mouth!!!

rudiger2

When I sucked my thumb everyone would say that it was goin 2 shrink.
The thumb I used to suck (sometimes still do) is smaller than the other one!

breena

When i was a little kid i would suck my thumb.
my grandfather told me if i sucked my thumb long enough it would turn into a fork.
I haven't sucked my thumb since.

Ariel F.

my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick.

tracy g

When i was little i used to believe that if you stuck your fingers in your mouth worms would grow in your mouth. I stopped doing that after a while because i was so scared.

Lisa

My mom told me that if I continued to suck my thumb, my front teeth would grow like a rabbit's. I stopped, but then accused her of lying when my front teeth grew on.

Mrs. Buck Teeth

when i was 6 i used to suck on my thumb still.i dont know y it was a habbit.so in order to get me to stop my mom told me if i keep sucking my thumb i will have a huge hole in my thumb.i got so scared i stoped. i dont beieve that anymore though.

Brittney

One of my older brothers used to tell me when I was 4 5 or 6 that because I sucked my thumb, my thumb will shrink

Samantha

My mom told me that your thumb would turn green and fall off in your sleep if you sucked your thumb too much. I believed this until I was 10.

John

When i was a young boy i sucked my thumb, my mom told me that she would put pepper on my thumb if i didn't stop. I didn't listen because she didn't do it. Then she told me I would have buck teeth, i stared in the mirror and i swore that i was getting buck teeth so i stopped.

jvf

I used to suck my thumb all the time as a child. One day, my older sister came home from school and said that her teacher had told her that if you suck your thumb for too long, as an adult, your thumb would swell up and explode. Aahhh!

Jennie

When i was little, my mom would say to me " If you don't stop sucking your thumb, it will turn out to be a stick jsut like a lolipop".....

Helen

When i sucked my thumb when i was little, my Grandmother always used to ask me what it tasted like. I always told her that it tasted like grapes and strawberries. I could just imagine someone mixing up grapes and strawberries in a bowl and then spreading it on my thumb at night!!!

JMK

My dad told me that my thumb would shrink if I kept sucking it, so for years I would measure it against the other one and as the size was always the same I just carried on sucking it until I was about 15

Anon

My parents use dto tell me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would have buck teeth and everyone would laugh at me. Well my teeth are just fine and though people do laugh, they are laughing with me not at me. I am 21 and still suck my thumb. Thanks mom and dad... love you too. :)

Racheal

My mom got me into a habbit of sucking my thumb so I wouldn't use a binky. I thought that made me a grown-up so I kept on sucking until I was ten and now I have braces/

SPECIAL

I used to believe that if you suck your thumb too much, it would fall off the next day. My mom told me that to prevent me from sucking my thumb and I never sucked my thumb again. I'm 20 and am still afraid to suck my thumb. I will tell my future kids that if they don't stop sucking their thumb

Violet

My uncle had lost his thumb in world war 2. We told my brother (a thumb-sucker until 13) that my uncle had sucked his thumb so much it just dropped off one day.

Hilary