Experience suggests that varies widely. But at least a few years.
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Hahaha Pipsqueak still would like to eat playdough but she’s mostly able to control herself. When she was around 2 she understood the rule that if she ate playdough, it would be put away. She would always play with it for 5-10 minutes and then give me a sneaky look while shoving some into her mouth and then say something akin to “bye bye playdough” like she had done the cost benefit analysis and eating the playdough was worth it being put away.
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ETA: same thing with pom poms. I think kids like Latte were having great fun “posting” straws and pom poms into tubes at like 1 years ago old but Pipsqueak COULD NOT stand to have a pom pom within site and not eat it. I think she was 3.5 before she played with a pom pom and didn’t try to put it into her mouth.
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Oh yeah Ravioli’s not coming anywhere near pom poms for a good long time
They do playdough at daycare and I’ve never been told he ate enough to cause concern but I still have no desire to try at home yet lol
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REMOVABLE was so helpful in searching! Thank you and @Ferngully for planting that idea.
I spent like 15 minutes trying to talk myself out of buying the Hanna Andersson one that was $50 on Poshmark and then I bought it. It was the best size. 3T might not last all winter and 4T might bunch up in the bike seat but 100 cm is probably perfect.
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It really depends on the kid. Both of mine stopped putting non-food items in their mouths sometime around 16 - 18 months. I’m actually pretty impressed by the fact that my baby (technically toddler) will sit on the floor, hand me a piece of lint, and then put the cheerio next to it in her mouth (no comment on the state of our floors 
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We did nothing to make this happen by the way - this was just luck.
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Pumpkin loves collecting rocks and at 3.5y still sticks a sneaky on in her mouth if we arent watching.
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Latte literally still chews on things. But she’s never eaten play doh. Of course that’s probably picky eating winning over mouthing sensory seeking idk 
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It is crazy how differently kids are wired. Some stop putting everything in their mouths at a year old. Mine are 5 and almost 4 and still put everything in their mouths
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Eldest at 6.5 chews on things still. She just knows the things now that are acceptable to chew on. Usually. Let’s be honest me at 34 when stressed still chews on things. Right now my sweatshirt strings are going through it…
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Me reading this as I fish out a stick of gum from my desk stash.
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Has anyone ever successfully resolved a nap strike? What did you change? Cuckoo is 27 months and has outgrown the crib. She takes things out of her dresser and unplugs and moves the baby monitor and lamp.
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Maybe? B2 is back to mostly napping. I’m being more responsive to his cues vs nap time and trying to do an outing just before
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Yes. Latte always pushed it to 10 or 13 days and then went back to napping lol. She did that like 5 times we just kept it as quiet time and kept her in there and kept at it and usually exhaustion, a growth spurt, or a cold would catch up to her and force her back into napping.
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Did you offer any quiet toys?
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Yep! Blocks, a few books, and her Yoto with a card of us reading together. I’m not sure what ages I did what exactly though.
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More toileting questions! Any solutions for bedwetting that aren’t pull ups? We’re washing bedding 4+mornings a week. But if I add back the night pull up day wetting comes back STRONG.
The wetting is usually morning, around waking up, but sometimes with a night waking. I think transition or processing time issue? Awake but not all the way awake. OT is being called today so we can also work on the core regulation again.
Also taking ideas for alternatives to the comforter
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I would suggest waking at 3-AM with an alarm, putting half asleep child on the toilet, tucking back into bed but I dont want you to lose more sleep and doubt it would work anyway (e.g. child may decide 4AM is now the time to get up for the day, etc).
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We took the sleeping kids for a pee when we went to bed, around 10-11 or so. They went to bed around 8 and it was enough time that it was productive. They also slept so hard (which was our issue - they simply didn’t wake when they needed to go) that they never woke through this process.
We also lasagna’d the beds - mattress pad, fitted sheet, mattress pad, fitted sheet. So one layer could be pulled off when a midnight change was needed.
We also, when the kids got older (10ish), stopped folding sheets, and left a basket full in the hall. I’d wake up to see the hall light on and a kid changing their own sheets.
There is an anti diuretic, desmopressin, if you want to take the med route. J1 originally had it as a nose spray. J1 absolutely hated it as a nose spray. Now we have sublingual tablets. We generally only use them for camp and away from home.
Oh, and we tried to hydrate in the mornings, then limit after 6.
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Chux liners?
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