However, understanding why kids hold onto this habit and knowing how to support them through this phase is key-not just for their development but for maintaining that important parent-child trust.

Related: How To Deal With Toddler Temper Tantrums As children get older, thumb sucking becomes less about building infant muscle groups and more about comfort. Kids hang on to their thumb-sucking ...

I almost look like a huge thumb, like those thumb men from Spy Kids." From then, Sanchez couldn't shake the feeling that his body was slightly off. It started to get to him that his wife ...

Most children typically ditch their thumb-sucking habit between the ages of 2 and 4, with some quitting earlier, by 6 or 7 months old. But if they're still sucking at 5, the American Academy of ...