How to Teach Children to Blow Their Noses

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Blowing your nose may come naturally for you, but it's something small children must learn to do. Follow these steps to impart this simple skill.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Step 1

Teach your child to blow through his mouth first. Birthday candles and bubbles are perfect items to help.
Step 2

Show your child how to blow out a candle first. Then hold the candle a safe distance away from her face and tell your child to blow out the candle. Practice makes perfect. Remember to cheer for successes and give lots of praise.
Step 3

Blow bubbles with your child. Again offer praise for successes. Keep practicing.
Step 4

Master the mouth blowing techniques and then move on to the nose-blowing. Tell your child to watch you blow air through your nose. Hold a strip of tissue up to your nose and blow making the tissue move. Let your child try this.
Step 5

Create games out of blowing through noses and mouths. Use a straw to blow small tissue balls across the kitchen table to score goals. Be very careful when using a straw in your child's nose. Hold it for him on the very outer edge of the nose.
Step 6

Hold one nostril closed and make you child blow. Place a tissue strip under the open nostril and let her see the tissue moving.
Step 7

Move on to a whole tissue under both nostrils as the last step. Tell your child to close his mouth and blow air through the nose into the tissue.
Step 8

Bribe your child with chocolate when all else fails. Candy-coated bite-sized chocolates as a reward for a good nose blow can work wonders.

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