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7 Year Old Wants to Stop Thumbsucking

My almost 7 year old daughter wants to stop sucking her thumb because she's afraid her classmates will find out that she still does this and she's afraid she'll get teased. The other day at story time in class (they put their heads down and rest) she started falling asleep and found herself sucking her thumb. She's very worried it will happen again. Does anyone have any suggestions how to help her stop without resorting to painting her nails with toxic stuff that tastes so bad she'll throw up (her Dad did this once and she threw up all...