Spring is a favorite season for mothers and their children. After a long cold winter, we are so pleased with the opportunity to take off our winter clothes, take a longer walk, enjoying the bright sun and wonderful mood. And kids with special joy and perseverance master the puddles on the sidewalks. But, sadly enough, it is in the spring that babies often face colds, the constant companions of which are a runny nose and cough. Most parents at this very moment begin to think about the need to teach their child to blow their nose. Just how to teach a one and a half year old baby to blow his nose, and is it worth it?
Of course, how easily and quickly you can teach your child how to blow his nose depends both on your patience and skill, and on your child's desire to learn this "craft". Teaching your child to blow his nose is important in cases where your child categorically does not let you near his nose with such instruments of torture as cotton swabs, sniffers and a pear. In such a situation, there is an urgent need to clean the child's nose, for example, from boogers or mucus, and it is better if he learns to blow his nose himself.
You can teach a child to blow his nose using the natural curiosity of children, their desire to imitate and love to play.
Try teaching your child how to blow his nose by showing him how his dad or brother does it. With regular observation of this procedure from the outside, the child will definitely try to repeat it, and over time he will succeed.
You can playfully teach a child to blow his nose. Nozzle blowing games are easier to practice when the baby is healthy and his nose is not obstructed. Play the Puffing Hedgehog game with your child. Explain to the baby that the hedgehog tightly closes his mouth and puffs loudly through the nose, and exhales through the nose should be short and loud, one nostril should be closed. Let the puffing hedgehog run around the apartment, play hide and seek with the puffing hedgehog. Puffing through the nose alternate with cheerful fuss and laughter, and then such a necessary skill will be laid down in the child's memory easily and naturally, and when the need arises, your child will be able to blow his nose.
Nose wind play will also help you teach your child how to blow their nose. The essence of the game is that the kid must "blow" with his nose on light objects, such as feathers from a feather bed, soap bubbles, a piece of paper suspended on a string, scraps of light paper and try to blow them off. You need to learn to blow out air, alternately pinching one nostril.
It is extremely important not only to teach the baby how to blow his nose, but to teach him how to blow his nose correctly. Already at the training stage, explain that the hedgehog snorts "half of the nose", while teaching you how to properly pinch the wing of the nose with your finger. Do not demand that the child "blew" from the nose strongly, during the period of an acute cold, with a strong blowing of the nose, mucus may get into the auditory tube. Do not let the baby blow into the pinched nose, one nostril should be free and not pinched with your finger.
Do not be discouraged if you failed to teach your child how to blow his nose. Perhaps it is in your case that everything has its time.
