As a person who studied psychology in college, I understand nature vs. nurture. No surprise when both Charlotte and Elijah took up thumb sucking considering both Greg and I sucked our thumbs when we were little. However, I was quite surprised when Charlotte cried out today saying she hurt herself, and upon furthering questioning, discovered that she hurt her finger. And what I saw when she told me she hurt her finger was a fingernail in the other hand and a very little stub of a nail left of her hurt finger. Now, where, oh where, did she pick up this nasty habit of biting her fingernails down to the stub? Yup, my mother, Charlotte's maternal grandma.
You need to understand though that my mom no longer bites her nails, and has beautiful fingernails, but there was a time long ago that wasn't the case. (She either almost got blood poisoning or did get blood poisoning.) Let's hope it doesn't get to that. This is now where nurture comes in and we have to teach Charlotte not to bite her nails.
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