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I have many vices. That is a point of fact, not pride, and I generally try to disguise or at least not talk so much about these things. In many cases, I just don't know if it is worth complaining or highlighting something that I probably won't be able to fix. I don't have the energy to address all of these things.
I bite my nails. This is something I have always, always done. I do it in boredom or anxiety. It is an unpleasant habit at best, and I have gone in to remission at times and curbed myself, but at times... and oh look I'm in one now, the tendency comes surging back. (I should try the regular manicure route or something like that but I just don't have the time to deal with it. I'm more interested in finding a way to deal with some other things first. Bathing suit season is approaching unfortunately.)
Last week in Slate, Emily Bazelon wrote of her own battle with nail biting and witnessing it blossom in her own kid. This is something I dread. It is enough that I've passed on my party angst to Felix, without something like this.
Bazelon tries to cure her son of his nail biting and this is where I think I might have put on the breaks. Is this a habit the parent must break or can kids-- even adult ones like me-- take it upon themselves to nurture or drop nail biting on their own? I have always been quite annoyed when people, whether it be a parent or an (ex) boyfriend try to correct me if they catch me in the act. Or is it doing a disservice to the child not to correct this tendency?
So far so good, though. Neither of my boys has succumbed to the gnawing tendency.
posted by Elise at 4:40 AM
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Laura (Kramarsky) Curtis said...
I bite my nails horribly, compulsively, sometimes to the point of pain. However, given the many addictions I've fought over the years, I figure this one is relatively harmless. My grandmother told me I would "never get a man" unless I stopped, a fact I thought about when I had yet to "get a man" in my mid-thirties. Luckily, in this --as in so few other things--she was wrong.
Nothing I tried ever cured me of the habit. Sometimes, when I am exceptionally calm, my nails grow in. But something always sets me back to gnawing them again.
3/10/2008 11:57 AM
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