Many children eat their fingers in the process of growing up. Parents will feel very unsanitary when they see it. They hope their children can get rid of this bad habit. Here are the reasons why children eat fingers. I hope I can help you.
1. Relieve anxiety
When children are nervous about something, they will use this convenient way to alleviate anxiety, and this convenient way is to use their fingers to bite their nails and gnaw their nails. When the child is young, parents help the child correct it, so there is nothing to worry about.
However, in the growth of children, parents should also teach children what ways to alleviate anxiety. Once they find a way to alleviate anxiety, children will naturally correct this bad habit.
2. Rebellious psychology
In fact, everyone has a rebellious psychology, especially children. Parents think it's unhealthy for children to eat fingers, but the more you interfere with children to prevent them from eating fingers, the more they want to fight you and do that.
Therefore, it is important to take the right way of intervention through these two points. One is to ignore him, the other is that you take the initiative to let him eat. This first point is very difficult. Most parents can't sit idly by in the face of their children's shortcomings, but in fact, as long as you don't interfere too much with him, he doesn't feel interesting and won't continue to do it.
The second point is that you let him eat. When you see the child finish eating his fingers, you tell him to eat his toes. If he wants to work against you, you obey him and help him. In this way, he will feel that this is not fun and will not continue.