…can you give kids gum? Because I think that three and a half is too young. Big Sister had her first piece of gum today. After me saying 87 times “Don’t swallow, just chew it!” she put it in her mouth and chewed. I kept saying “Don’t swallow, don’t swallow!” And then she said “Ta-DA! I swallowed it!!” Okay. Let’s try again. Swallowed again.
Not ready for that yet, I guess.
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My kids are obsessed with gum. Yes, I’m a bad mom because I give it to them in order to stop the begging, but they usually swallow it in 10 minutes. I wonder if that thing about gum taking 7 years to digest is true.
(The myth of gum taking seven years to digest is not true)
Good Luck with training her not to chew it!
my kids never have asked for gum. is that weird? i don’t chew it regularly anymore, so maybe that’s why? i loved it when i was young though.
omg @ gum taking 7 years to digest!!
Caroline loves it. She does pretty well with it.
And when she is 10 you will be telling her to throw the gum out because you cannot stand to hear her snapping it all the time. We all become our mothers eventually….:)