At first glance it seems that bad habits are only for adults. But, unfortunately, they are also found in children. At preschool age is, basically, thumb sucking, nail obkusyvaniya, masturbation, hair pulling, swinging from side to side, picking your nose. A little later joins theft.
such actions reflect the negative feelings of the child. If he was able to show them the outside - it might bite, fight, hurt other children, rude. Bad habits are a manifestation of the same energy, but directed inwards. These kids are tearing hair on his own head, bite their nails, pick your nose, wrote at night ...
All of these actions occur not just play an important role for the child - to help him cope with the experience. This frustration, and anger, and anxiety. Get rid of bad habits is difficult, because such actions bring pleasure to the child and attract the attention of adults, which he can not miss.
The paradox here is that if you ban these baby steps, that is, to try to remove the habit in itself, you'll only aggravate her. Moreover, if you hit on the hands, fingers smear mustard - the baby is enhanced internal stress. And even if you succeed in such a way to extinguish a habit very quickly in everyday life of the child will be another similar. The approach to bad habits must be very thin. In fact, to cope with them, you need a lot of time and patience. Quick results should not count.
Bad habits in the child: what to do
1. The most important (and most difficult) - clear that symbolizes this habit, the lack of which it replaces, it gives the child (most often it is calm, the expression of anger, to attract attention or protection). And to make sure that the child does not need it and did not satisfy this need a bad habit.
2. Pay more attention to your baby. Find a way to calm him down, so he did not have to do it yourself.
3. It is important that the range of behavior that you forbid a child was small. And in order to forbidden action has always been one and the same reaction. Let his life be yet as little as possible surprises.
4. Come up with new and interesting classes,that will be fun for both of you. It is better if they are connected with a visit crowded places, travel distances. The more relaxed hobby - the more likely it will save the child from a bad habit.
5. I must say that bad habits - it is a signal of any problems in the family.Then you need to analyze the situation, to play them, draw, discuss, ask, what feelings they evoke in the child.
6. School-age child is good to find a friend to help, if it is not.
7. Should not be punished for the bad habit, shame, paying too much attention to it. In general, whenever you could not pull up the baby and distract, it can be considered a small victory.
8. And forbid not to get angry and teach the child to express his anger.
10. Teach your child to be happyand have fun with some other things, that it was not required to do by habit.
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