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  Tukuna ahau kia mahi, kia mōhio ai ahau me pēhea te ako – let me do things over and over again

  Just like big people I need to practise new things.

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  Dr. Travis Stork:

  If you’re a parent or grandparent, you know firsthand that kids and germs go hand in hand. So having said that, what’s the next tip?

  Dr. Jim Sears:

  Well you got to teach your kids how to sneeze and blow their nose properly. Right? 

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  I mean if there’s no tissue around, sneezing into the elbow - birdy cough or birdy sneeze - is great. But there’s another great way to teach them how to use a tissue once they’re old enough. So, I call it “Get piggy with it.”

  Dr. Lisa Masterson

  Okay. I like it already.

  Dr. Jim Sears:

  Just follow me. Just trust me with this.

  First, you’re gonna teach them how to snort like a pig, without a tissue. You’re gonna go - 

  [Everybody makes snorting noises]

  Dr. Jim Sears:

  Tell the kids, “So you’re sucking in.” So that’s teaching the kids how to suck it in. Then it’s actually easier, once they know how to do that, it’s easier for them to know how to blow it. Then you go, okay…

  [Dr. Jim demonstrates how to blow your nose.]

  Dr. Jim Sears:

  That way if they’re sick, you just say, “Piggy.”

  Dr. Lisa Masterson

  There you go.

  Jim Sears:

  And they’ll know what to do.

  Dr. Travis Stork

  I like that.

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  How to Teach Kids to Blow Their Nose Medical Course

  Pediatrician Dr. Jim Sears demonstrates an easy way to teach children how to blow their nose as well as how to sneeze to minimize the spread of germs

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  Dr. Heather Zimmerman:

  Some toddlers already understand how to blow their noses by like two years old, and then there are other kids who cannot blow their nose until they are four years old. It is a wide range. 

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  Dr. Heather Zimmerman:

  I think one of the most important things is that even by two to three, they understand that they probably don’t like that nasal suction coming at them whether you are using the bulb or the nosefrida or whatever device you have, and so tell them “As you do it, as soon as you can blow your nose like mommy or daddy, we don’t have to use the sucker anymore,” and that will help motivate them to do it. Then just practice, lots of practice. You might even do the practice when you don’t actually have a lot of congestion so it’s not as messy. But kind of teach them, demonstrate how to blow their nose.

  Have them try to do it. Show them again what they did wrong. The more they practise, the more motivated they are to help get that out of their nose, the more they’ll be successful.

  They do understand if you tell them like: “It’s hard to be so stuffy, you can’t breathe, let’s get that out of there.”

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  Nose Blowing - Boys Town Pediatrics

  Teaching your child how to blow their nose can be a difficult task for parents. Dr. Heather Zimmerman, pediatrician at Boys Town Pediatrics, offers some tips and strategies for parents when they are trying to teach their child how to blow their nose.

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