Band-Aid Obsession

Shoot, my 13 year old step daughter STILL does this!! However, I tell my 4 year old that if he isn't bleeding, he doesn't need a bandage, and he usually accepts that mom isn't backing down.

Let her have the band aids. It's cute! She will outgrow it pretty soon. If you really can't afford a box of band-aids, then I don't have a suggestion. Just tell her no.

Most toddlers think band-aids will cure owies and generally make them feel better. It's adorable.

my son went through this too, but it's been so long ago I don't remember what I did about it. Can you put a bandaid on one of her dolls, and call it her band aid baby? Tell her she can only have 2 band aids, and she can put them on her doll herself, and take her doll to bed with her. I don't know, just an idea. Good luck!!!

Our daughter went through that for a while.. I , I mean, Santa would always give her a few boxes in her stocking.. still does, last year were the Bacon Bandaides.. this year the Pickle Bandaides. , I loved them in the pinatas, along with stickers, tattoos and candy.

I also used to purchase them when I saw them on sale.. At our local grocery store they sell their own brand for a lot less.. maybe check around..

I was about 1st grade they lost their luster where she would wear them for fun.. But we have always continued the tradition because she is like me and tends to be clumsy and she is a sculptor in college, so you can imagine.

Are they the fancy band aids? Ya know, the ones with the characters on them? If they are stop buying them they are like stickers to kids. All four of my kids went through this and the only thing that ended it was plain boring brown band aids.

All kids seem to go through this. I gave up fighting on it. Last time I went to Costco, I bought the REALLY BIG Band-Aid selection. Couldn't stand paying the $$ for the character band-aids.

Somewhere someone suggested putting stickers on average joe band-aids to jazz them up a bit. You'll still wind up wasting band-aids, but it won't be so costly.

LOL My daughter is completely obsessed with Band-aids too! We just tell her they are all gone, and if she does get hurt then we make a big deal out of looking for one. Then when, of course, we find it we go "Wow LOOK I found one!" and by then she is laughing at our antics and is no longer upset by the boo boo. Double win.

I tell my kids "no blood, no band-aid" sometimes they try to convince me a healing scab is blood, so then I have to change it to "no bleeding, no band-aid" :)

I am of two thoughts of mind concerning the waste of band-aids, one is: 'Waste not, want not' the other is: wounds need air to heal, band-aids do not aid in the healing of wounds, they are designed to keep dirt out of OPEN wounds until a scab can form. Scabs ARE nature's band-aids.

well with my daughter i offer her kisses. i act like things hurt and say kiss mommy arm it hurt. and she'll kiss it and i'll say thank you it feels better.
so now when she hurts herself she'll kiss ask me to kiss it and ill ask her does it feel better and she'll say yes.
she probably only wants it because kids love stickers
also she know it gets your attention

My daughter was obessed for years. She put them on herself, the dolls, the daycare kids, used them in art projects, and drove me to distraction. She would sneak and I simply couldn't find it in myself to be too upset over bandaids. We just kept buying them at the cheap dollar stores and eventually she grew out of the obsession... like YEARS later.

Tell her that since she doesn't need the band aids anymore, you need to save them for when she DOES need them, because wouldn't it be sad if she needed a band-aid and they were all gone?

Then, maybe give her a little sticker or a stamp. Explain that since she doesn't need the band aid anymore, she can still have fun with a sticker/stamp to decorate her newly healed skin. I also give kisses when bandaids are no longer needed. A magical cure (usually).

it's so not a big deal...it's just a phase. Just get those really cheap ones at the dollar store or ikea or something, let her have her little bandaids.

My five year old can go thru a box in a week or two. She used 4 on a six hour car ride last wknd :) It used to really drive me crazy (and sometimes still does). Santa even put some in her stocking one year! The way I got her to really understand was one day she really did NEED one and we were out. She had a scrape that was bleeding. I reminded her of the 4-5 she wasted just a few days before and "see, now we need one and dont have one". She is starting to get the idea that if there is no blood- you dont need a band aid! It is frustrating at times but will pass.

Two ways to go.
1) let it go and enjoy the phase. I have three teenagers, they all went through it and Band-Aided up for a while. I have a darling naked pic of my son covered in maybe 20 Band-Aids and a towel on his head. The Band-Aids are like magic to them and make them feel better. They grow out of this phase pretty quick once the novelty wears off.
2) Band-Aids are for bleeding only, you don't need one. Here's a kiss instead.
Sincce it obviously bugs you, probably best to go with option two.
Either way-it's a stage. Won't be a fight for long.

I buy plain band-aids and only use them if a child is bleeding. Partly because of the waste and partly because they're choking hazards when kids take them off/they fall off and babies are around. I've had many band-aid obsessed kids over the years, some who'd come in with multiple band-aids on pretend owies. When they fell off, they'd ask me for more, but I just told them that they weren't bleeding and didn't need band-aids. Then, we'd check the other "owies", discover they weren't bleeding and removed those band-aids too. If you remain firm on the band-aids=bleeding stance, make a joke over checking for gushing blood when asked for a band-aid and then reassure her she's fine and to go play, she'll get over the band-aid obsession pretty quickly. Good luck!