What If They Took Away The Comfort Blanket?

When will she stop sucking her thumb?

Doesn’t she know that she’ll ruin her teeth if she keeps on doing that? Hasn’t she seen the others who have braces because of the incessant thumb-sucking? She should just grow out of it and get on with her life.

Tell the same people who criticise her for sucking her thumb that their familiar and comfortable routines were going to be disrupted and see how upset they would get. Some would look to be very sophisticated about the distress. They rationalise the efforts to resume the routine and the set programme. There was much to be hailed and lauded about this way of life, why disrupt it now? Plus changing this is unnecessary. There might be one or two issues with it, but nothing is perfect. It is far better to just make small and incremental changes if need be. No need for anything this drastic! Don’t do this!

Yet the question is still raised about her still sucking her thumb.

There was the television cartoon about Charlie Brown and Snoopy (just typing that makes me think about the theme tune – good times). The character Linus was always seen with his comfort blanket and it was a common source of funny material. At the same time as laughing at Linus, was there ever sense that perhaps Linus was …

Nah, it’s just about her – she must stop sucking her thumb!

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden