What do you tell a child who likes to stick marbles up her nose?

Try a wiffle ball bat.

Encourage her a little out of sarcasm. Say something like, "Ya know if you keep doing that you might be able to fit an orange up there someday! Wouldn't that be funny? Someone walking around with oranges in their nose!"

That would be enough to have her laughing pretty good and she may not even do it again. But if she does then you can ignore what she's doing because there's no physical, possible way someone can stick an orange up their nose and she'll finally get it, but she learns from that instead of just following orders.

"Get that marble out of your nose before you end up with brain damage!"

Tell them they wont get her high so stop trying.

Nothing. She's having fun, and the older she gets, the less she will have. Tell her she should try Kool-Aid, makes your post-nasal drip taste better

I suppose that's one way of not losing all your marbles.....lol

That's gonna hurt.

I started like that and now bizarely I have a sneezing addiction.if you want the details of how that works message me...I am not bothered about it but it is a weird thing to like doing!!

Has she ended up in casuality yet.............

Wonder why she likes doing it?

You tell her "Don't stick marbles up your nose honey. You won't be able to breathe." Then get her to hold her nose to see how it fels if you can't breathe . . .

Once she gets the idea, ask her parents WHY they didn't say anything. . . WTF???

Tell the out come of doing it. "Marbles will hurt your nose and you may have to go to the doctor to get one out. That won't be fun and might hurt too." Talking about "danger" or harm is easy and not scary for 3 yr olds.They listen and learn.

How badly it hurts to take them out...

ew. I would say, "now that's not very attractive!!" Hopefully letting her know doing that isn't pretty will motivate her to stop since all little girls want to be pretty.

you should have said you daft child are you aware how dangerous that is, then you should have turned to the parents and said what are you lot playing at, dont allow her to do that!...simple really.

I would tell her,"Those don't go up your nose. We will have to go to the doctor if you keep doing that." "Than I would say,"This is what you do with marbles." and I would sit down and play marbles with her.

tell her that golf balls would work better

Wow.....your creative! Here is a racket ball.......

Take them to see Dr House

You should've beckoned her over quietly and when she got to you been like "shove another ball up your nose and I'll go out and get the tennis balls, see how well you like those shoved up your nose." Nah, you should've just told her to cut it out, and that if she pushes them up too far she's gonna have a serious problem...

Hi Sage360
what is wrong with doing that? Seems harmless exploring to me.
:)

Why not cut to the chase and take away her marbles? That would end the issue right there. If you have to, challenge her to a game of marbles and WIN them all away from her. LOL

Like I tell my daughter if it gets stuck you'll have to go to the doctor then they'll have to give you a shot before they can get it out and you wont like that. When she was younger she got really sick and the nurses couldnt get the needles in her arm for an IV so that works for everthing like that. I know scaring a kid isnt always best but if it works its better than a needle.