There are many benefits for small babies eating fingers, and it has been observed that after 20 years, there will be obvious gaps in many aspects such as intelligence and children who cannot eat fingers.
The benefits of eating fingers are many, because eating fingers can help to satisfy the child's desires, stimulate the baby's brain development, if you pay attention to hygiene, the mother should not restrict him.
Babies generally put their small hands in their mouths from three months old, sucking and nibbling constantly, and some even nibble their toes when they are older.
When the child eats his fingers, we will find that his expression is very relaxed and very happy, as if he eats not fingers but human delicacies.
Some children even make a twitching sound while nibbling on their fingers.
Nibbling fingers when children are bored, nibbling fingers when children are unhappy, and nibbling fingers when children think of their mothers, it seems that nibbling on their fingers has become a way for children to release stress.
The reason is nothing more than: the three-month-old child is in the oral sensitivity period at this time, he is using the mouth to feel the world, for the child can be put into the mouth is the world, so put the small hands and feet into the mouth, the fingers will stimulate the mouth, so that they will feel the taste of the hand, is soft or hard, the brain is still thinking, so while eating the fingers, the child's feelings, perceptions, imaginations, have promoted the development of the brain.
In child psychology, this behavior and cognition of children is called cross-channel cognition, which is very important for children's psychological development.
Let the child eat the fingers carefully and without distraction, which has certain benefits for the baby:
1. Stabilize the baby's mood. The smaller the baby's insecurity, the more anxious and uneasy the baby, and eating hands can stabilize the baby's uneasiness and make it easier for the baby to adapt to the external environment.
2. Promote your baby's cognition. For babies under one year of age, the main way to recognize the world is to "eat", so eating hands can promote the baby's cognition of the world.
3. Promote the development of intelligence. For babies, when eating hands, they can make their sense of touch, taste and smell better, which promotes the development of nerve function and is also helpful for the baby's intellectual development.
It has been observed that children who can eat fingers from an early age and children who cannot eat fingers are compared with 20 years later, and the gap between the four aspects is obvious
First: Love to snack or smoke: Many people eat snacks not because they are hungry, but because their mouths can't stop. The mouth can not stop, it is more likely to be stopped by the mother when he wants to nibble his fingers when he is a child, and the desire to eat the fingers of this mouth is suppressed, and when the child can make his own decisions, he will satisfy the oral desire that was not satisfied when he was a child by eating snacks, and the child can eat his fingers well when he is a child, and the desire for snacks will be greatly reduced.
Snacks are high oil, high heat, high sugar food, eating too much is easy to be obese, so when you are a child, do not give the child a finger, it is easier to affect the child's weight control. Some children who do not like to eat snacks will change to love smoking or chewing betel nut (betel nut can also cause cancer), these habits are not conducive to health.
The second emotional management ability: when the child is small, all kinds of anxiety and irritability will be alleviated by eating the comfortable habit of eating the finger, and the child who can nibble the finger from an early age will not easily explode his emotions and have a stronger ability to control emotions.
Children who are stopped from eating their fingers by their parents from childhood are more likely to be emotionally unstable or even explosive when they grow up, because they have not learned how to control their emotions when they are young.
Third IQ: As mentioned earlier, when the child eats the finger, in fact, he is also imagining what shape the finger is, whether it is soft or hard, and what is the difference with when drinking milk, and the hand in the mouth can feel what the mouth looks like, all of which need to rely on the child's feelings and imagination, and even memory, and this information is transmitted to the child's brain. Children who can eat fingers at will when they are young will develop their brains earlier and their IQs will be relatively higher.
And children who are forbidden by their parents to eat fingers from childhood, this ability to cross-channel cognition is snuffed out raw, directly affecting the development of children's IQ.
The fourth degree of self-confidence: psychologists observe that children love to eat fingers, as long as the fingers and toes are washed clean, it will make the child feel that the world is beautiful, the world loves me, I am worthy of love, his sense of security will be very abundant, and the child who has a sufficient sense of security will be more confident when he grows up.
Children who are forbidden to eat fingers by their parents from childhood will begin to wonder why their parents do not give me fingers, and will doubt their parents' love for themselves, and the child will have inferiority and a lack of security. Such children will grow up to be relatively inferior and their sense of self-confidence is not so strong.
Of course, parents must pay attention to keeping the baby's hands clean and hygienic during the time when the baby eats hands, and avoid infection with various bacteria and germs in time.
In addition, the baby often eats hands, will be on the small hands covered with the baby's saliva, small hands may appear red and itchy, resulting in problems with the baby's skin, parents must clean up the baby's saliva in time, to avoid causing the baby's skin to appear inflamed and red and swollen due to saliva irritation.
Babies generally start around the age of 2 years old and gradually lose their hands, parents do not have to worry. If the baby's hand-eating behavior continues to eat after 3 or 4 years of age, it may affect the healthy development of teeth, and even lead to problems such as irregular teeth alignment, which will have an unsightly impact on the baby's appearance.
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