Kids eat the strangest things
The mouth is a major sensory organ, and even if your house is baby proofed from floor to ceiling, at some point, your curious little one will sample something he shouldn’t. Taste is closely linked to smell. In fact, 75% of what we taste is attributable to our sense of smell, explains clinical nurse and author of Toddler Sense, Ann Richardson. There are, literally, thousands of taste buds in and around the mouth that are sensitive to sweet, sour, salty and bitter tastes – and children’s mouths are hyper-sensitive to these new sensations, which is often why they’ll want to experiment with different objects using their mouths.
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