In life, it seems to be a big problem for parents that children eat their hands. It's a child. I can't seem to avoid the problem of eating hands. So why do children like to eat their hands? How can children correct when they like to eat their hands?
There are several reasons why babies like to eat their hands:
1、 The sensitive period of mouth is coming. Sun Ruixue mentioned in his book the sensitive period of catching children that there are different sensitive periods in different stages of children's development, the earliest of which is the sensitive period of mouth.
We will find that babies like to eat their hands. When we take their hands away from their mouths, they will cry to protest. This is because they are using their mouths to explore the world. When they can't control their body freely, they know their body through their mouth. When they eat small hands, they will find that, oh, I have small hands. When I go to the back, I will eat small feet and eat what they can eat.
At this time, please don't stop the children. This is the necessary stage for them to grow up. Just help them clean their little hands and let them chew freely.
2、 Appease yourself. Older babies, about half a year later and before three years old, will appease themselves by eating their hands. It's like that sometimes when you eat breast milk, your baby may not be hungry, it may just be psychological comfort. When they are lonely, bored and insecure, they will be relieved by eating their hands. This stage of hand eating is also normal. Adults do not need to interfere or worry.
3、 Lack of security, inner anxiety. Children who are three years old will also eat their hands, because they will use the way of eating their hands to relieve when they are in a strange environment or under great pressure. In particular, the children who have just entered the kindergarten may have more hands to eat. Adults don't have to worry too much. They should accompany and comfort their children more.
In a word, children's behaviors of eating hands before the age of five or six are normal. If children are older and still eat hands, it may be caused by a lack of long-term sense of security or anxiety, which is easy to form a habit. At this time, we should pay more attention to children and slowly correct their bad habit of eating hands.
According to these reasons, when children eat their hands, there are several methods for reference:
First, pacify the pacifier.
If a child under one year old eats his hands badly and his parents are too worried, he can use a pacifier.
The second is the molar stick.
Now the baby's development time is sooner or later. Some babies start to have teeth in four or five months. Some babies don't have teeth in seven or eight months when they are one year old. I feel that the baby starts to have teeth. I can use a molar stick.
Third, maintain hygiene.
For example, toys should be washed and disinfected.
Fourth, avoid eating by mistake.
Be sure to take good care of the baby at home and put away some dangerous things that he may put in his mouth, such as nuts, pills, etc.