<![CDATA[Pen chewing]]>Hi,


Does anyone have kids that are pen chewers and what do you do about it? My dd has started chewing her pens towards the end of last year and we thought it was just a phase. But I think it has gotten worst. We threw out all her old chewed ones and bought her new pens for this year but barely one month, all of them are all chewed and have teethmarks all over. Even her favourite Hello Kitty mechanical pencil from primary school also have chew marks now and the backend cap is nearly chewed flat! When questioned, she just say she doesn’t know why she did it and maybe sometimes when bored in class! If she is 5, I can still understand but she’s already in secondary school! Anyone has ideas or seen this? Some webpages suggested painting funny stuff but I also don’t want to get her poisoned. We tried scolding as well as friendly chat but doesn’t seem to work.

I don’t think she has ADD or sensory stuff things and she seem to do well in school- at least so far.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/31025/pen-chewingRSS for NodeSun, 19 Apr 2026 21:38:27 GMTMon, 16 Jan 2012 15:07:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:20 GMT]]>Hi swagged out...


No lah... don't think your teeth will fall out. But yeah... it will start to protrude out if you are biting too hard. That's what I am worried will happen to my DD.

My DD also say its addictive to bite her pens. Really that addictive meh? Don't you find your pens now look ugly with all the teethmarks?

ALL_SWAGGED_OUT:
Hey everyone 🙂 well I have been recently bitting a pen in school for about a month or so and It started to get a little addicting.. Well from what I know there are some consequences from pen chewing.. 1. You can loose your teeth. 2. Damage them. 3.or even worse .

I was biting my pen then a month later I notice my two front teeth were loose .. I was scared and still is .. So if anyone has further information please help me I'm only 14 and is scared because I'm embarrassed they might comeout and graduation is right around the corner 😞

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/780020https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/780020Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:01:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Sun, 13 May 2012 14:08:56 GMT]]>Hey everyone 🙂 well I have been recently bitting a pen in school for about a month or so and It started to get a little addicting.. Well from what I know there are some consequences from pen chewing.. 1. You can loose your teeth. 2. Damage them. 3.or even worse .


I was biting my pen then a month later I notice my two front teeth were loose .. I was scared and still is .. So if anyone has further information please help me I'm only 14 and is scared because I'm embarrassed they might comeout and graduation is right around the corner 😞

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/761538https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/761538Sun, 13 May 2012 14:08:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:06:13 GMT]]>Lol!! Spwriting, I don’t have chance to bite other pen because my work desk is not near my colleague, hence no chance for me to take their pen accidentally. Unless they misplace on my desk but… Chances are very low. Kekekekeke…

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/736220https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/736220Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:06:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:58:27 GMT]]>Sounds like my dd. she chews anything n everything. An eager beaver.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/736217https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/736217Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:58:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:44:30 GMT]]>hee. yeah. but when you bite, you at least know its your own pen? So will you like accidentally bite your colleagues pen? I found last week in my daughters pencil case, her classmates pens and she was chewing on it. It even had her class mate's name on sticker stuck to the top and surely you can't miss it right? She claims her classmates at her table bite their pens too so it didn't matter. Plus she says their tables pushed together so all their pens always get mixed up! I don't know how she return her classmates pen with all those dents on it but somehow she did! She now has another classmates ruler and she didn't bring home one of her metal pens. :stupid:


Did you bite your waterbottles too? She chewed on her nike bottle. Even her cousin also say how come spray bottle must bite until like that. But she still chews it until one day the rubber part broke! I got her a nozzle less bottle but she is now biting the cover and the strap.

Hope she gets through her chewing phase soon!

MrsSeah:
spwriting:

Hi Mrs Seah,

I have tried giving her a few metal pen and pencil and threw out all her chewed up pilot pens! She still sucks them once in a while but because its quite hard, she can't quite chew them. Initially she left a few dents on the metal pen but after a while, i think she stopped chewing but just merely put in her mouth. So maybe that might work for you.

Did you have the habit to chew your pens since school days? I am hoping she will stop the habit before she becomes an adult. 😜

Also, do you know if you are chewing your own pens or do you ever accidentally chew someone else's pens? My dd doesn't seem to care and she chews her sisters, cousins and or even mine pens too! All full of her saliva smell somemore.... yuck!

Yes I have this bad habit since young. I chew anything that I hold (including straw), my office pen have dent on top of the pen. :oops: :oops:

I tried to be more self-conscious at work lah but still will chew when I am concentrating on something. 😛 :oops: :oops:

Good to hear that metal pen worked for your girl, hope it can change her bad habit with your help. :xedfingers:

The funny thing is my kids don't have this habit. Lucky this bad gene never pass to them. :rotflmao:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/735488https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/735488Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:44:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:47:16 GMT]]>

spwriting:
Hi Mrs Seah,


I have tried giving her a few metal pen and pencil and threw out all her chewed up pilot pens! She still sucks them once in a while but because its quite hard, she can't quite chew them. Initially she left a few dents on the metal pen but after a while, i think she stopped chewing but just merely put in her mouth. So maybe that might work for you.

Did you have the habit to chew your pens since school days? I am hoping she will stop the habit before she becomes an adult. 😜

Also, do you know if you are chewing your own pens or do you ever accidentally chew someone else's pens? My dd doesn't seem to care and she chews her sisters, cousins and or even mine pens too! All full of her saliva smell somemore.... yuck!
Yes I have this bad habit since young. I chew anything that I hold (including straw), my office pen have dent on top of the pen. :oops: :oops:

I tried to be more self-conscious at work lah but still will chew when I am concentrating on something. 😛 :oops: :oops:

Good to hear that metal pen worked for your girl, hope it can change her bad habit with your help. :xedfingers:

The funny thing is my kids don't have this habit. Lucky this bad gene never pass to them. :rotflmao:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/733011https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/733011Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:47:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:58:51 GMT]]>Hi Mrs Seah,


I have tried giving her a few metal pen and pencil and threw out all her chewed up pilot pens! She still sucks them once in a while but because its quite hard, she can't quite chew them. Initially she left a few dents on the metal pen but after a while, i think she stopped chewing but just merely put in her mouth. So maybe that might work for you.

Did you have the habit to chew your pens since school days? I am hoping she will stop the habit before she becomes an adult. 😜

Also, do you know if you are chewing your own pens or do you ever accidentally chew someone else's pens? My dd doesn't seem to care and she chews her sisters, cousins and or even mine pens too! All full of her saliva smell somemore.... yuck!


MrsSeah:
Oh.. please tell me got any cure? I also a pen chewer. :oops: :oops: :oops: I also don't know why I chew. I always chew when I am thinking something / day dream and it automatic go into my mouth. I chew anything - pen, pencil, straw, stick... as long as anything I hold on my hand and the next moment I noticed, I am chewing. Even my dd know my bad habit and will shout \"MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!\" when she noticed it. :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/731995https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/731995Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:58:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:20:19 GMT]]>My 7 year old dd has this habit of chewing her pencils. She does it unconsciously. She can chew until the pencil lead is exposed. I tried putting pencil caps and she bites the caps too. I’ll try your suggestions of applying spice.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/726301https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/726301Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:20:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:09:05 GMT]]>

schweppes:
MrsSeah:

Oh.. please tell me got any cure? I also a pen chewer. :oops: :oops: :oops: I also don't know why I chew. I always chew when I am thinking something / day dream and it automatic go into my mouth. I chew anything - pen, pencil, straw, stick... as long as anything I hold on my hand and the next moment I noticed, I am chewing.


Even my dd know my bad habit and will shout \"MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!\" when she noticed it. :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite:


Alamak, MrsSeah... even your emoticons are showing that u are chewing on your fingers :yikes:

(just kidding 😉 don't get angry hor.... :please: )

:rotflmao: Yahor!!!!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/716512https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/716512Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:09:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:12:00 GMT]]>

MrsSeah:
Oh.. please tell me got any cure? I also a pen chewer. :oops: :oops: :oops: I also don't know why I chew. I always chew when I am thinking something / day dream and it automatic go into my mouth. I chew anything - pen, pencil, straw, stick... as long as anything I hold on my hand and the next moment I noticed, I am chewing.


Even my dd know my bad habit and will shout \"MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!\" when she noticed it. :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite:

Alamak, MrsSeah... even your emoticons are showing that u are chewing on your fingers :yikes:

(just kidding 😉 don't get angry hor.... :please: )

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/716381https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/716381Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:12:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:06:42 GMT]]>I vaguely remember I did stop after a while. The shock of spicy chilli after you just got into a daze is a good wake up call! Pun intended!


spwriting:
haha... and did you stop?

I tried pepper but she got rather angry. She say her pencil case now smell like some herbal soup! she says many of her classmates also chew pens and their mothers do not do anything about it.

so her pens continue to have teethmarks. 😞 Can't imagine too all her saliva on the pens after all the chewing and then next day she chew on them again. eeew.
dragonflysg:

I remember my mum rubbing chilli onto the pencil without telling us...

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/716239https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/716239Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:06:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:25:52 GMT]]>haha... and did you stop?


I tried pepper but she got rather angry. She say her pencil case now smell like some herbal soup! she says many of her classmates also chew pens and their mothers do not do anything about it.

so her pens continue to have teethmarks. 😞 Can't imagine too all her saliva on the pens after all the chewing and then next day she chew on them again. eeew.

dragonflysg:
I remember my mum rubbing chilli onto the pencil without telling us...

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/714966https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/714966Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:25:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:31:22 GMT]]>I understand that it may have started from boredom or even anxiety and most of the people who did so subconsciously. My nephew was recently being bullied in school, he is only 7 years old and he started doing that. Chewing on things subconsciously. Monitor and check if there is anything affecting her. If there is really anything, then need to cure that at the source

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/714038https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/714038Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:31:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:25:02 GMT]]>Oh.. please tell me got any cure? I also a pen chewer. :oops: :oops: :oops: I also don't know why I chew. I always chew when I am thinking something / day dream and it automatic go into my mouth. I chew anything - pen, pencil, straw, stick... as long as anything I hold on my hand and the next moment I noticed, I am chewing. Even my dd know my bad habit and will shout \"MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!\" when she noticed it. :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite:

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/714031https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/714031Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:25:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:42:26 GMT]]>I remember my mum rubbing chilli onto the pencil without telling us…

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/713988https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/713988Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:42:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:56:55 GMT]]>what can pepper do?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/708234https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/708234Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:56:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:43:11 GMT]]>

spwriting:
Hi,


Does anyone have kids that are pen chewers and what do you do about it? My dd has started chewing her pens towards the end of last year and we thought it was just a phase. But I think it has gotten worst. We threw out all her old chewed ones and bought her new pens for this year but barely one month, all of them are all chewed and have teethmarks all over. Even her favourite Hello Kitty mechanical pencil from primary school also have chew marks now and the backend cap is nearly chewed flat! When questioned, she just say she doesn’t know why she did it and maybe sometimes when bored in class! If she is 5, I can still understand but she’s already in secondary school! Anyone has ideas or seen this? Some webpages suggested painting funny stuff but I also don’t want to get her poisoned. We tried scolding as well as friendly chat but doesn’t seem to work.

I don't think she has ADD or sensory stuff things and she seem to do well in school- at least so far.
pepper helps..... but maybe should check.... just to be secured...

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699647https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699647Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:43:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pen chewing on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:35:47 GMT]]>how about pepper? if she gets too near the end of the pencil she would sneeze? 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699256https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/699256Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:35:47 GMT