Parents Picking Their Children's Noses... EWWW!!!

[permanentvacation]

I just had an interview. We were talking and the next thing I knew, the mother looked at her child and without a word, shoved her finger up the kid's nose and started digging for gold!! Then she told the child that he had 'boogies up his nose'. I was completely caught off guard and just thought "Eww! How disgusting! OMG! Really? OMG! Eww!" I had just sat my handbook on the table for her to look through right before she did that. My initial thought was to grab up my handbook before she put her finger full of mucus on it! I offered her tissues and she literally said, "No, I'm fine." UMMM.... EWWW...NO! You are NOT fine! You're GROSS!!!! I had to shove the tissues at her and demand that she use them. I then demanded that she wipe her hand off with a diaper wipe. (I could tell there was no way I was going to get her to actually WASH her hand, so I thought at least a diaper wipe would clean the muck off of her finger a bit.)

She left a half hour ago and I'm still grossed out, shaking my head and wondering who does that? It's gross enough that she picks the kids nose. But to sit in front of someone you don't even know and do it, just as naturally as can be. How disgusting, rude, lack of class, lack of dignity, etc.!

The thing is that it's not just this one mother. I couldn't tell you how many mothers have done that here on an interview or when dropping off their child or picking their child up from daycare.

Why do mothers pick their kids' noses? I never did, I never saw my sisters pick their kids' noses. My mother never picked my nose. Do you pick your children's noses? Do your daycare parents pick their kids' noses? Am I the only one grossed out by this?

[Baby Beluga]

I am grossed out by anyone picking their nose - but especially an adult and especially if tissues are present.

[daycare]

Eeeewww I hate snot boogars whatever you want to say that they are.

I just threw up.

[Starburst]

I personally wouldn't use my finger, but I think some parents after a while just lose that initial gross-out after a kid or two. Like that Luvs diaper commercial about the new mom boiling all of her baby's stuff and when she's a second time mom and her baby drops a binky on grass she just puts it in her mouth before giving it back to the baby (which is actually better because it helps build that baby's immune system).

I was on facebook earlier today and one of my mom's friend's granddaughters posted an article about those blue nose bulb syringes being full of mold (even when cleaned regularly/properly). It actually didn't startle me because a friend of mine used to use those for her ears and it started to wear out it cracked open and it was full of mold. That's pretty gross to clean your baby's nose with (not to mention unhealthy). http://www.babble.com/baby/better-th...-on-your-baby/.

[Unregistered]

Seriously? You're concerned what a mother chooses to do with her child. It may be gross to you, but when you're a mother there's not too much that really grosses you out. Is much rather pick my child's nose than have my child walking around with snot all on his face, as I have seen lots of children. I swear sometimes the people on this forum find the smallest and stupidest things to complain about. THAT is classless. Life must be so miserable to find so
Many things to complain about.

[Unregistered]

Some parents use their mouths to **** the snot out of babies noses too with or without a nosefrieda snot ****er. Yuck

[sahm1225]

Seriously? You're concerned what a mother chooses to do with her child. It may be gross to you, but when you're a mother there's not too much that really grosses you out. Is much rather pick my child's nose than have my child walking around with snot all on his face, as I have seen lots of children. I swear sometimes the people on this forum find the smallest and stupidest things to complain about. THAT is classless. Life must be so miserable to find so
Many things to complain about.

Wash your hands afterwards! You licking your child's nose and then touching things means YOU are spreading germs!!

[Play Care]

Why did I open this thread as I was eating my breakfast....

[Shell]

Seriously? You're concerned what a mother chooses to do with her child. It may be gross to you, but when you're a mother there's not too much that really grosses you out. Is much rather pick my child's nose than have my child walking around with snot all on his face, as I have seen lots of children. I swear sometimes the people on this forum find the smallest and stupidest things to complain about. THAT is classless. Life must be so miserable to find so
Many things to complain about.

Perhaps dcm could have asked for a tissue to handle the situation, or a baby wipe?!

[permanentvacation]

After she started, I OFFERED her a tissue and she said she didn't need it, she was fine shoving her finger up his nose. I don't know where she thought she was going to wipe the mess off of her finger. Was she going to flick his nose mess onto my carpet? Wipe it onto my chair she was sitting on? Or wipe it on her own clothes?? I literally had to DEMAND that she use a tissue and then DEMAND she wipe her hand off with a diaper wipe.

[Shell]

After she started, I OFFERED her a tissue and she said she didn't need it, she was fine shoving her finger up his nose. I don't know where she thought she was going to wipe the mess off of her finger. Was she going to flick his nose mess onto my carpet? Wipe it onto my chair she was sitting on? Or wipe it on her own clothes?? I literally had to DEMAND that she use a tissue and then DEMAND she wipe her hand off with a diaper wipe.

Yeah, that's gross. I hope you understood I was trying to point out to pp that there were more appropriate ways for dcm to handle the boogers ::
I take it you're going to pass on this family, right?!

[Leigh]

After she started, I OFFERED her a tissue and she said she didn't need it, she was fine shoving her finger up his nose. I don't know where she thought she was going to wipe the mess off of her finger. Was she going to flick his nose mess onto my carpet? Wipe it onto my chair she was sitting on? Or wipe it on her own clothes?? I literally had to DEMAND that she use a tissue and then DEMAND she wipe her hand off with a diaper wipe.

Exactly my thought when I read the first post...just what was she going to do with it when she got the boogie out of there?

[Josiegirl]

Seriously? You're concerned what a mother chooses to do with her child. It may be gross to you, but when you're a mother there's not too much that really grosses you out. Is much rather pick my child's nose than have my child walking around with snot all on his face, as I have seen lots of children. I swear sometimes the people on this forum find the smallest and stupidest things to complain about. THAT is classless. Life must be so miserable to find so
Many things to complain about.

There is a huge difference between picking some dried stuff off the outside of a child's nose, then washing your hands afterwards and digging for gold, then resisting when offered a baby wipe!! I'm sorry, but I'd be totally grossed out too. And I've handled lots of gross stuff in my past 30+ years as a dcp.

[spinnymarie]

Oh I definitely pull out the ones that are all crusted up out front. And then I wipe it on a kleenex, have them blow their nose, and we all wash hands.
I'm not too grossed out by the nose-picking. But it is SUPER weird that she refused a kleenex when offered?

[melilley]

Oh I definitely pull out the ones that are all crusted up out front. And then I wipe it on a kleenex, have them blow their nose, and we all wash hands.
I'm not too grossed out by the nose-picking. But it is SUPER weird that she refused a kleenex when offered?

This is me. I will pick my child's nose, but I definitely wash my hands! It doesn't gross me out.