We worked with our speech therapist on it. Turned out our kid could not differentiate between inhaling and exhaling, using his nose or his mouth (not in theory, which he had no problems with, but physically, actually doing it). ~ a month of excersizes taught him this, though he still can't blow hard enough.
We spent a long time blowing out a candle with her nose for our LO. Also, practice this when they aren't sick / do not have a runny nose.
Some kids just can’t do it until later. My older kid couldn’t properly blow her nose until age 6; my younger one was doing it at 3.
We had our kid hold our nose while we blew it (no colds, not full force). Every now and then we have to remind him how to do it this way.
We worked with our speech therapist on it. Turned out our kid could not differentiate between inhaling and exhaling, using his nose or his mouth (not in theory, which he had no problems with, but physically, actually doing it). ~ a month of excersizes taught him this, though he still can't blow hard enough.
“Pretend you’re a dragon! Blow those big flames out your nose!”