A survey by a psychologist in the United States shows that 6% to 12-year-old children eat their fingers all day, and 44% children often bite their nails.
Therefore, children are very common, not always hungry, psychologically hungry, need a sense of security, relieve inner anxiety, or relieve other things.
1. It is a pleasure for a motionless child to eat his hand.
Freud believed that people have different happiness centers. Children under one year old have pleasure centers in their mouths. Do you drink milk when you are born, eat something else when you grow up, and make your child very happy when you eat it in your mouth?
2. Eating hands will make children feel more secure.
Babies not only feel happy when eating their hands, but also reduce their anxiety and make them more stable when eating their hands.
But eating hands has advantages and disadvantages, mainly in three aspects.
1, importing diseases and bacteria from oral cavity.
Children's hands are often put in the air and exposed to many bacteria. When eating hands, the bacteria in the hands will be imported together, leading to oral infection and stomach infection in children.
2, affect the growth of teeth
Many children like to eat their hands for a long time, and their hands are pressed or blocked by teeth, which leads to irregular teeth and affects the overall appearance.
Make others laugh
However, when many children of the same age are not used to hands, if your children still like to eat hands, other children will also be laughed at by adults, which will affect their mental health development to some extent.
If children still eat their hands after one year old, the sunshine will be very strong, and parents should correct it as soon as possible.
1, find a nipple as a substitute.
Give up eating habits, find substitutes, and give children a sense of security. When parents don't let their children eat their hands, they will feel uneasy if they are empty, so nipples can be used as a substitute for their hands.
2. Spend more time with your children.
Generally speaking, children with sufficient sense of security have enough love and companionship, which also allows them to grow up at a certain stage and change their original diet. Some children eat their hands when they are young. I think it's because they lack company and feel uneasy. Eating their hands can satisfy their sense of security.
3. Photo albums and honorific pictures
Parental guidance is very important for children. When the child continues to eat his hands, we can show him picture books and tell him not to eat his hands when he grows up. You can't swear step by step, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
4. You can even put the medicine in your child's hand and recommend the medicine.
If children often eat their hands, we can apply drugs that children can put on their hands and let them touch the drugs on their hands. The bitterness of the taste will interrupt their behavior of eating hands. Rumor, will children be hungry after eating their hands? Not necessarily, but it is more likely to be a sign of children's intelligence.
Children's habits are always inseparable from the care and guidance of their families. Good guidance can help children get rid of their habits, but connivance is not necessarily good for children. It may be a catastrophe that affects the healthy growth of children. Therefore, in order to eliminate bad behavior, parents' help and guidance is essential.