Mouthing toys

[Meyou]

I have 2.75 year old DCG who CANNOT keep things out of her mouth. She drives me bananas. I wash more toys daily because of her than I do weekly for the rest of the playroom.

I have her in a separate area with large hard to mouth toys but she's still mouthing the accessories I gave her to play with. She's lost all her guys, furniture and baby accessories this morning already for eating them.

What else can I do? Leave her with larger, hard to mouth toys only? That pretty much means she'll have baby toys and not the "big girl" sets she likes. Timeout when she mouths? Currently I take the toy for the day and tell her that her mouth is for food not toys.

I'm so frustrated with this one. Cold season is coming and I don't need drool everywhere on top of my normal cleaning especially from an almost 3 year old that knows better.

[Unregistered]

Is this always been a problem with her?
If not, maybe she is just now getting her 2 year molars and they are hurting and she is chewing.

[e.j.]

That pretty much means she'll have baby toys and not the "big girl" sets she likes.

Losing access to the toys she likes might be the key to stopping her from mouthing everything.

I had a boy about the same age who chewed on all the toys. I finally gave him a hard teether and told him that if he wanted to chew on a toy, that was the toy he had to use. It took a lot of reminding at first but he did get used to grabbing that one toy when he felt like he had to chew on something. All the kids knew it was G****'s only. If they saw it on the floor, they'd let me know so I could wash it and put it on the table for him to grab again when he needed it. They even started to remind him to use it if he forgot.

[Meyou]

It's always been a problem but she's having some 2 year old behavioral problems as well (yelling in people's faces, pushing, biting, breaking toys) and it's been worse since her overall behavior deteriorated a few weeks ago. She's also seperated for those issues until I can correct them.

She's the middle child here. I have a baby, her and 3 that are between 4 and 4.5. I don't know if that factors in at all.

[Meyou]

Losing access to the toys she likes might be the key to stopping her from mouthing everything.

I had a boy about the same age who chewed on all the toys. I finally gave him a hard teether and told him that if he wanted to chew on a toy, that was the toy he had to use. It took a lot of reminding at first but he did get used to grabbing that one toy when he felt like he had to chew on something. All the kids knew it was G****'s only. If they saw it on the floor, they'd let me know so I could wash it and put it on the table for him to grab again when he needed it. They even started to remind him to use it if he forgot.

Well we'll see how the rest of today goes then. She lost everything but some baby toys so far today. :: She lost some for throwing them.