My 3year old has the hiccups and she wont give me one--HOW rude!!  should I punish her?
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If there is ONE THING in this world that I CANNOT STAND, it's SOMEONE WHO WON'T SHARE THEIR HICCUPS!\n\nNow, YOU GIVE SOME OF THEM UP RIGHT NOW, or else...\nNO CANDY,...EVER!!!...:D
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you may want to respect her wishes and let her handle it. i know it has to be hard for a parent to do-- but consider your daughter's perspective. ( i was the kid who got eggs tossed at her, so i know how cruel kids can be...) 14 year olds....think they sprouted from the ground. any parental involvement is generally discouraged by them, and it really may cause her more embarassment. this is an age where kids want to show that they can hold their own.\n\nthe best thing you can do is let her handle it, but be reassuring that it's not her "fault"-- a lot of girls feel that if there were something that they could change about themselves, thigns would be better. let her know that some boys are jerks. chances are, she is not the only one he did something like that to, and he probably has a reputation for being a jerk. \n\nif your daughter is willing to let it go, let it be. however, if this is a part of a pattern of how she's been treated at school... you may want to consider options to intervene.
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I do not know much about the ways to stop her sucking her fingers but I very much urge you to teach her not to suck them. I was like that until the age of 12 and the horror stories people tell you are true. Already at the age of 8, I had to get braces, my teeth were horrible and I was lisping because my teeth grew in a really horrible way - they were protruding outwards from my mouth. Not very pleasant. Children at school made fun of me and I was not very happy. Since my thumb was sucked so much, I had to wear plasters on them because they had wounds on them. \n\nDefinitely make all the neccessary steps to make you child stop sucking her thumb, as soon as you can. Do not let her grow with such a bad habit. It was difficult for me to get rid of it too. I am now 21 years old and I have no problems, only because of those braces and my own strong will. I even stopped lisping because I taught myself how to speak properly. And let me tell you, it was one of the most difficult things to do.
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Here's a few remedies I found on the net that you could try:\n\nPat baby on the back. If your baby has the hiccups, hold her upright\nagainst your shoulder and pat her back gently, suggests Dr. Garcia.\n''Some babies are prone to swallow a lot of air when they nurse or\ndrink formula,'' he says. ''And too much swallowed air distends the\nstomach, which can lead to hiccups. Some gentle pats may help bring up\nthe air and stop the hiccups.''\nCheck the nipple. ''A baby may swallow too much air and hiccup if the\nhole in the nipple of the formula bottle is the wrong size,'' says Dr.\nGarcia. How can you tell? '' When you turn the bottle upside down you\nshould get a drip, drip, drip of formula that gradually stops, rather\nthan a free flow or no dripping at all,'' says Dr. Garcia. He\nrecommends experimenting with different bottle and nipple types to see\nwhat works best for your baby.\nGo ahead and feed. Don't delay feeding your baby just because he has\nhiccups. ''Hiccups won't interfere with your baby's eating. And eating\njust might make the hiccups go away,'' says Michael J. Pettei, M.D.,\nPh.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein School of\nMedicine of Yeshiva University in New York City, and co-chief of the\nDivision of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Schneider Children's\nHospital of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park,\nNew York.\n[...]\nBut don't overdo feeding either. During the first few months of life,\nif your baby always gets the hiccups after eating, overfeeding may be\nthe culprit. ''Try feeding your baby smaller portions, more\nfrequently,'' advises Robert Wyllie, M.D., head of the Section of\nPediatric Gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.\n''If you suspect that you've been overfeeding your baby, try feeding\nhim on demand rather than on a schedule you've created, and never push\nhim to eat more than he wants,'' Dr. Wyllie adds."\n[...]\nhttp://www.mothernature.com/Library/bookshelf/Books/50/65.cfm\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n   \nBaby's Bliss GripeWater may also provide relief...\n"A traditional European remedy, gripe water contains safe, fast,\neffective, natural ingredients for relieving colic discomforts. Gripe\nwater has been used by mothers for over a century to relieve babies\nfrom the discomforts of colic, stomach cramps, hiccups, gas and\nteething.\n[...]\nIn an independent conducted Customer Satisfaction Survey, 85% of\nrespondents said they found Baby's Bliss GripeWater to be effective in\nrelieving symptoms associated with colic, gas, hiccups, excessive\ncrying, teething and minor stomach upset!"\nhttp://www.mommysthinkin.com/baby's_bliss_gripewater.htm\nBaby's Bliss website\nhttp://www.babys-bliss.com\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n   \nAnise seed is also said to work...\n"Anise seed (for infants) Pour a cupful of boiling water over a\nteaspoonful of anise seeds; steep; give the baby one or two\nteaspoonsful. It often cures immediately. Nursing the baby will\nfrequently stop the hiccups, too."\nhttp://www.health911.com/remedies/rem_hic.htm
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some kids are just shy.  my daughter is like that when she is around people she has met before.  she has to be around them about 10 times before she gets comfortable.  i just encourage her to speak clearly, look at people in the eye when she speaks to them and make sure she talks insteak of just nodding.
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So she's a pain is the a***?...So what. She is only 20, she is gonna get on your nerves, and please don't compare her with the 16 yr. old who only wants to please you. that is hurtful to all of you.\nI am assuming she isn't on drugs, she's going to school, what is her crime here?...cause she has a boyfriend.????...Remember when you were 20????\nTell the hubster to lighten up and be thankful that she is doing well in school and that she is a good kid, sloppy yeah, but good.  \nMake a list of what it is you expect for her to do to be a member of the household, put it on the fridge, and tell her that these are your expectations of her, if they are realistic, she'll comply I bet.  \n20 isn't easy, remember?...you are not a kid, not an adult, you just sort of are.  Please support her and encourage her schooling and good grades.  she sounds okay to me, lazy around home maybe, but with miss 16 year old perfect sibbling, what do you  expect?...She can't compete with that...\ngood luck, never easy. my daughter and I didn't speak for a year for the very reasons you have brought up, I would give my limbs to have that year back and I am the one who blew it, not her. have patience, she will love you for it...
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Folk\nAnise seed (for infants) Pour a cupful of boiling water over a teaspoonful of anise seeds; steep; give the baby one or two teaspoonsful. It often cures immediately. Nursing the baby will frequently stop the hiccups, too.\n\nApple cider vinegar Slowly sip a glass of warm water mixed with one teaspoon of vinegar. Works better when the water is drunk from the far side of the glass.\n\nBaking soda (bicarbonate of soda) Mix two teaspoonsful of baking soda, two teaspoonsful of aromatic spirits of ammonia with four ounces of peppermint water. Dose: one tablespoonful; repeat if necessary.\n\nBreathing Breathe into a small paper bag that is tightly pressed around your mouth. Or try spreading your arms out like a "T" and take a very deep breath. Repeat several times. Or try taking a deep breath and holding it as long as you can.\n\nChamomile Put 1 drop of chamomile essential oil in a brown paper bag; hold bag over nose and mouth; breathe in and out slowly and deeply through the nose.\n\nCamphor Mix three drops of spirits of Camphor in half a glassful of water and drink.\n\nCollar bones Put strong pressure on the collar bones.\n\nHoney Take a teaspoon of honey.\n\nIce  Eat or suck on a piece of ice. \n\nLemon Mix the juice of one lemon in half a glass of water; drink; repeat if the first drink didn't stop the hiccups.\n\nLemon/salt Put a teaspoonful of salt on half a lemon and then suck the juice out of the lemon.\n\nLemon/bitters Eat a slice of lemon which has been soaked in angostura bitters.\n\nOrange Drink the juice from 1/2 an orange.\n\nPeanut butter Eat 1 teaspoon of peanut butter.\n\nPepper, red Pour a half pint of boiling water over a quarter of a red pepper; steep; drink a wineglassful. If no red pepper is available, use five drops of tincture of Capsicum in a tablespoonful of water.\n\nPineapple juice Take a few rapid swallows of canned pineapple juice. Repeat hourly if necessary.\n\nSugar Cure hiccups by placing a teaspoon of sugar on the tongue and washing it down with a glass of cold water. Another sugar remedy suggests swallowing it dry.\n\nSugar/lemon Soak a cube of sugar in fresh lemon juice and let it dissolve in your mouth.\n\nTartar, cream of Add 1/3 teaspoon  of cream of tartar to 8 oz. of warm water; drink 2 tablespoons at a time on an empty stomach.\n\nWater Drinking water in various fashions has been an age-old cure. Here are several variations. Plug your ears and drink a glass of ice cold water; or slowly sip a cup of warm water; sip a cup of warm water with honey in it. For infants:  hiccups usually disappear in 5-10 minutes. If hiccups do not disappear, give the baby a bottle of sugar water. Mix one-quarter teaspoon of sugar with four ounces of water.\n\nPlay "hear no evil." Some doctors recommend that you put your fingers in your ears - and not because they don't want you to hear yourself hiccop. It seems that branches of the vagus nerve also reach into the suditory system, and by stimulating the nerver endings there, the vagus nerve goes into action. Of course, other doctors insist that you should never put anything smaller than you elbow in you ear in order to avoid irritating or damaging the ear canal. So if you do decide to try this hiccup reliever, be gentle, and don't stick your fingers too far into your ears.
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Who's the child?  Be the bigger person and move on.  You will only make the problem worse.  If you really can't handle her bossiness, talk to your teacher or couselor.  Good Luck!
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My daughter is six also and she is really trying to push buttons she seems manipulative and has fits when she dont get her way dont stop unless she gets her way. which i just leave the room. very sassy and think she should not have to do anything and i have no solutions because i have a hard time with her right now.
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I pretty much agree with everyone else. Talk to her, just do it tactfully. People are very sensitive these days especially when it comes to their children. Volunteer to help her out if necessary, the most important thing here is that the children are well taken care of.
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Don't listen to those morons. All you need to cure hiccups is a little consentration. At first, this will be a bit tricky and may require silence. Afer a little while, it will require nothing more than a moment of thought. It NEVER fails, once you get the hang of it.
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You should just explain to her that there are some words that we say out loud in front of people and that there are some words we don't!! Just remember she is only 8--if you don't make a big deal of it then neither will she, she will eventually forget about-if you don't react--you reacting is telling her that it is one way to annoy you--that is why she is saying it! But I am sure if you sit her down nicely and tell her the difference between big girl words and not big girl words---PS your mom will start reacting when she goes to the school and says it-and she has to go in for a conference!! Good Luck!!! :)
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haha thats funny!!  \n\nshe shakes it too much thats probably why she doesnt have one!
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Sounds like you are impatient and demanding. Maybe that is what you are doing wrong. The potty mouth does not help you either.
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"Hic!" You've just hiccuped for what seems like the tenth time since you finished your big dinner. Wonder where these funny noises are coming from? The part to blame is your diaphragm (say: die-uh-fram). This is a dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest, and all hiccups start here.\n\nThe diaphragm almost always works perfectly. It pulls down when you inhale to help pull air into the lungs, and it pushes up when you exhale to help push air out of the lungs. But sometimes the diaphragm becomes irritated, and when this happens, it pushes up in a jerky way that makes your breath come out differently from how it normally does. When this irregular breath hits your voice box, you're left with a big hiccup.\n\nSome things that irritate the diaphragm are eating too quickly or too much, an irritation in the stomach or the throat, or feeling nervous or excited. Almost all cases of the hiccups last only a few minutes. Some cases of the hiccups can last for days or weeks, but this is very unusual, and it's usually a sign of another medical problem.\n\nYou've probably heard lots of suggestions for how to get rid of hiccups, and maybe you've even tried a few. Holding your breath and counting to 10 is one way some people can get rid of their hiccups; other people say that drinking from the "wrong" side of a glass of water is the way to become hiccup-free. Putting sugar under your tongue might work, too. And maybe the most famous treatment - having someone jump out and scare you when you're not expecting it - helps some people wave good-bye to their hiccups.
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Yes! Let it go.  They want you to react to their pissing and moaning. Who cares if they sigh, as long as they're doing what you've asked them to do? They're playing their role and the children. You should stay strong and continue be the parent.
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My mother told me to drink water but i prefer holding breath. Hiccup appeared because of lack of oxygen, i think, so holding ur breath will be good. Hold for 10 seconds and do it for3 to 5 times and it will be cured!!!