Our youngest is 19 months old (at the time of writing). He tends to suck his thumb when he's tired and while sleeping. We've tried a "bitter" remedy with VERY little success (he just sucked the bitters right off). We've also tried mittens as well as pin pricks to stop the habit. There are many resources on the Internet related to solving this "issue", some of which cost money and others that are free. In short, thumb-sucking is generally not a problem before the permanent teeth arrive (ages 5+). Children use thumb-sucking as a self-soothing mechanism and that's
OK.
Check out the following wikipedia link for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_sucking
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