Author: Zhao Xiaoming Text: Xing Juan Editor: Cui Guanli
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There are several reasons why children's quirky movements can form, and one more will be added. This cause may be related to the child's neuropsychological development or certain diseases.
Therefore, in this article, we focus on teaching parents, child educators, and psychological counselors to judge and distinguish the differences in the causes behind these different quirky actions.
01
Differentiation of triggers
Some quirky movements are more related to psychological factors, while other quirky movements may represent more serious physiological diseases and possible triggers for neurodevelopment, so we must understand these distinguishing methods.
- The first category, in the common quirky movements of children, the most common finger biting, almost all children in the development process more or less have;
There are also touching genitals; and there is also the like to touch the breasts; or like to hold dolls; and there are nostrils; or pulling hair; the above behaviors are actually more related to psychological causes.
- The second category, some of the quirky movements brought about by childhood tics.
The quirky movements of tics are also relatively easy to identify, the most common is such as blinking eyes, which is that the face often does some strange movements;
There are also vocal twitches, often making "ums" or pharyngeal movements like this; and some twitches are constantly shaking certain parts of their head.
Regarding tics, it reminds parents that children do have some abnormal discharge phenomena in the nervous system.
Generally speaking, tics do not cause too serious consequences, and because most children will grow and develop, they will slowly disappear with the perfection of the brain;
But there are a few children who do have this symptom that persists into adulthood.
So for the second category, parents can do some intervention, and there will be some explanation of the specific intervention methods in our music therapy course.
The first category is more related to psychological causes, parents do not need to pay too much attention, the key is not to too much, too careful anxiety.
The second largest category can be a small part of the intervention.
02
Actions that you may want to focus on
The third category may suggest that children have some serious nervous system, or early symptoms of a disease, which deserve special attention from parents.
Some special quirks, such as some children like to hit the body with their heads, or hit the wall.
Other children will have some extra movements of the hands or feet, and you will find that he has a fixed pattern and fixed habits.
For example, some children like to tiptoe their feet twice when they walk; some children have redundant movements of their hands and are always doing a certain repetitive behavior with their hands.
These movements all seem to be regular, cyclical, and often repetitive and unchanging, which we all call a forced ritual movement.
Other children will have repetitive movements, such as grasping something with their hands, holding a pen or holding their hands and constantly drawing circles.
If you observe that these movements of the child are not aggravated, mainly some stereotypical, repetitive, forced, ritualized movements, we can classify them into the third category.
The third category is that children have stereotyped behaviors, ritual behaviors, and compulsive behaviors, which will remind us that children may have a certain developmental disorder.
It could be ADHD, it could be Asperger's, it could be obsessive-compulsive disorder.
With regard to the third category, the main thing is to observe whether the action has gradually become more serious; or whether the action is constantly changing; if there is no change, we will call it rigid.
If there is a third category, parents should be reminded that they should go to the hospital for some tests.
03
Focus on the symptoms
In the fourth category, children may have some more serious neurodevelopmental disorders, or early symptoms of a disease.
Some children may always want to lift something, and he tries very hard and laboriously to grasp something with his hands, but he can't grasp it.
There are also children who constantly feel tickled, but there is no fixed position.
You'll find his movements weird, but not repetitive and irregular. These suggest that the child may have abnormalities in some organs.
It may be an early symptom of epilepsy, it may indicate that there is some phenomenon of nerve compression in the child's brain, it may indicate a tumor or something like that.
However, when it is found that the muscles of the child's body and limbs are excessively strained or weak, or ineffective movements, it should be noted that there may be the above reasons.
Therefore, the fourth category is that parents are particularly required to detect early and go to the hospital early for screening.
04
The type of exception to be reminded of
Based on the information mentioned in the four different collections, parents judged whether the child's quirks were severe or whether they needed to intervene.
It is not possible to simply treat all children's quirks as if they were left alone, and there are no more after the age of 18, and many problems are not so simple.
Some problems we can relax a little, and some problems require parents to pay attention to early, detect early, and screen early.
Do not unify the various quirks that occur in children as a relationship problem of the original family, and the love given by parents to their children is not enough.
If it is so simple to understand, sometimes it will delay the discovery of some serious problems.
Another category is early psychosis in childhood. Early psychosis in children also shows some quirky movements.
For example, some children will keep picking their noses, but they are not the same as the previous type of nose picking caused by psychological causes.
I once met a 16-year-old psychopath very early on.
His parents told me that his main quirk when he first became ill was that he liked to keep picking his nose.
Because he always felt that there was something inside, in fact it was an early symptom of hallucinations.
There are also some early symptoms of psychosis, such as headaches, and his parents have another child after learning that the child has severe mental illness.
The second child was normal at the age of seven or eight and nothing was wrong.
By the time he was a teenager, he developed psychosis at a time when he was almost at the same age as his first child.
So you can see why it is said that heredity is stable, and the correspondence will have some effects.
05
Look at things from multiple angles and at multiple levels
Therefore, for a variety of children's quirk actions, we should classify to screen, classify to diagnose, do not simply see children's quirks as a cause.
The most common is simply because of insecurity; or all because of the parental relationship problems; or the parents do not love him enough;
There is also a category that treats all quirky movements as a child with some kind of neurodevelopmental disorder that requires drug intervention.
Such an extreme use of a theory to understand children's problems is not advisable.
Because of the things in psychology, both adults and children have to think in multi-paradigm disciplines.
In addition, there are some movements that are not quirky, but some common situations that occur in children during development.
For example, some children will talk dirty, that is, they like to say dirty words; there is also a category that children are always chaotic and can't speak clearly.
We still put these problems into psychological causes, and they are indeed related to psychology.
06
Screening for ADHD and Autism
For common screenings like ADHD, there are also clinical approaches.
For example, we will ask the child to close his eyes and use a finger to see if he can effectively control different fingers;
There is also the ability to close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose with different fingers;
There is also the golden rooster independent, with his fingers clipped to the soybeans, to see if he can control.
Screening methods for children with autism are also relatively simple, and the most common is to see if he can generate accompanying attention, which is what we call common attention.
For example, point out something in front of him, he will not follow your attention;
And when the mother takes the child to a certain occasion, if the mother turns away, sometimes the child does not follow;
This all shows that he lacks a certain ability to pay attention, and all belong to the category of attention deficit.
If many of the child's movements occur frequently, such as muscle control is weak, he will hit something with his head, or he will keep hitting his head with his hands.
It is also a hint of some physiological screening, which may indicate that the child has certain problems with brain development.
07
Less severe screening results
Some children may use their hands to hold a pen in the process of drawing and writing, such as painting and writing, and he cannot do them, he can only do some large and thick movements.
These may represent a bit of stunting, but they are not particularly serious problems and can be observed continuously.
It is possible that some people are not very good at handling fine motor skills, and even in adulthood.
There are also children who ask him to follow certain commands to do certain physical control behaviors, and you will find that he cannot do it.
This also suggests that there may be a slight problem with the development of the brain somewhere.
Let's say let him close his left eye alone or close his right eye alone to see if he can do it.
Of course, these problems are not too big a problem, even if some people can't do it in their lifetime, they don't have much impact.
So a variety of screenings for children, screening for early childhood developmental disorders, including screening for quirky movements, don't think of it as a phenomenon.
We must master more complete and richer screening and diagnosis techniques and methods, which are what psychologists, child educators, and parents need to learn.
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