Thumbguard -V - Thudguard?

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Hi all,

After my last thread I accidently typed in the wrong word when showing a family the website for Thudguard (as their little 8 month old girl came in with a split forehead), I typed in the wrong "Thumguard" instead of "Thudguard". This brought up a totally different product but I would like to rate them against each other and see if your opinion comes out the same as my work mates.

0 - 10 with 10 being very useful product and 0 being absolutly stupid!

www.thudguard.com - V - www.thumbguard.co.uk

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:lol2::lol2: Good one mike!

Iv'e actually never seen this headgear, certainly no babies I've seen here in Scotland wear it!

Well actually Mike, if you check the website (inventor page www.thudguard.com) - you will see that she comes from SCOTLAND!!!!!!!!!

There must be a few wee laddies and lassies toddling around Scotland wearing them before the US would start selling them! :bugeyes:

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Actually cuddlebug, it was me who posted this, not Mike! And me who said lads and lassies! And I still have never seen this headwear!

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Sorry Danissa - my mistake. But according to the Thudguard website, over 500,000 head injuries occur in the UK every year so the accident and emergency sure see a lot of these wee lads and lassies! But then it is them who endorse it!

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S'ok cuddlebug. I just think, still, we are a world gone mad. How did people survive before this. and whilst the headwear may be a great idea for vulnerable wee ones, its over the top for everyday wear. I will look at their site, but as I said before, although it's a scottish inventor, I haven't seen or heard of any toddlers wearing it. I don't think it's wrong, just too much!

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I see your point about your two year old, but we all were two years old once, jees, I even had three of my own, who fell over, bumped bits and got up and got on with being a toddler! in this day and age, we go so overboard, kiddos not allowed to compete against each other in school races..(it's bad for self esteem!!:o), and not allowed to play football or hit chestnuts, for fear of being hurt. Its carrying things to extreme, unless the headgear is medically indicated.

OK, I've got to ask. What is "hitting chestnuts?"

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Jolie, see when you get chestnuts falling from the tree in autumn, drill a hole in them, put them on a string and play a game of "Cheggies". Basically, two players hit the chestnuts against the other, until one breaks, (good cheggie players have been known to use such means as soaking them in vinegar etc!!) It must be a scottish thingy, but now in schools, it's banned, for fear of injury. has been played for millions..(well, not quite millions,) of years, a long time anyway, just no longer!

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My now 28 year old lawyer daughter was a thumb sucker till she was 5 years old, saw a segment on the evening news about a thumbguard, never sucked her thumb again. I wouldn't use one, but apparently it scared her enough to quit sucking her thumb, by the way she is a well adjusted adult.:lol_hittiAt least most times.

My granddaughter was bribed with a special dolly( at 6 years old) into not sucking her thumb anymore, it worked. My 4 1/2 year old grandson still sucks his thumb, but says he will give it up when he is 5,:up: hmmmmm...........

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Jolie, see when you get chestnuts falling from the tree in autumn, drill a hole in them, put them on a string and play a game of "Cheggies". Basically, two players hit the chestnuts against the other, until one breaks, (good cheggie players have been known to use such means as soaking them in vinegar etc!!) It must be a scottish thingy, but now in schools, it's banned, for fear of injury. has been played for millions..(well, not quite millions,) of years, a long time anyway, just no longer!

Sounds like the equivalent of dodgeball. Banned by many school districts because it may damage self esteem. I know I live in redneck territory because dodgeball is still played in our schools, and the local Y even has a dodgeball league :)

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Talked with a patients mum today about the thumbguard and she surprised me by becoming very excited that there was such a product and quickly asked me for more information. Apparently she had been trying to get her 7 year old to stop sucking her thumb for years and would have paid any amount to have this sorted out! Well who knew? I guess you really have to be there at the time!

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Talked with a patients mum today about the thumbguard and she surprised me by becoming very excited that there was such a product and quickly asked me for more information. Apparently she had been trying to get her 7 year old to stop sucking her thumb for years and would have paid any amount to have this sorted out! Well who knew? I guess you really have to be there at the time!

Possibly if she'd just left the kid to her own devices (not that evil thumbguard!), the poor thing would have quit years ago.

Pick your battles carefully!!!

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..... My 4 1/2 year old grandson still sucks his thumb, but says he will give it up when he is 5,:up: hmmmmm...........

:rotfl::rotfl:..Oh to be that innocent, what a joy he must be!!! Cheers for the LOL!

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Now what would be a good idea is if the thudguard and the thumguard partnered up and sold together - throw in a bubble wrap suit and you have a remake of the elephant man waiting to happen!

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