Babies will always grow up for a period of time to always put their fingers in their mouths to eat, but also eat with relish, once they take away their small hands, they will still stuff them again, or they will be a little dissatisfied, tantrums and crying. At this time, parents will feel troubled, worried that the child will eat bacteria or some hair, cotton wool, worry about the disaster from the mouth, and at this time the child's digestive system is still in a stage of development, need to pay special attention, so the plan will be counted to wrap their hands up. This practice is actually wrong and is even worse for the child's growth.
Children love to eat fingers, let them eat. This actually has a psychological basis. The founder of psychoanalysis, the Austrian psychologist Freud, divided the psychological development of children into five stages: lips, anus, sexual organs, incubation, and adolescence. 0-1 years old is the lip period of children's psychological development, when newborns obtain a source of nutrition through sucking action, and are also a source of pleasure. The lips are the area where pleasure is most concentrated during this period, and infants and young children will suck by shoving fingers or grabbing something else into their mouths. When we grow up, we will find a way of life that suits us, get happiness, and babies and young children are not, stuffing things into their mouths and eating, is the source of their happiness, parents should not disturb their happiness.
Furthermore, child development is staged, from simple to complex. Parents should be happy that infants and young children put their hands or other things in their mouths and eat them, because this is a symbolic action of the child's growth, and the fingers begin to enter the sensitive period. The change of growth is in their small and subtle movements. Children can talk, they will say they want toys, fruits, cakes, to be satisfied, happy, while infants and young children can't talk, how can they come up with what they need? So they have to suck their fingers to get the satisfaction of this period, and after a while they will get satisfaction through their curiosity about the structure of the body. If they are in the sensitive period, the curiosity period does not get the corresponding satisfaction, which has a great impact on their future personality development and psychological development.
Since infants and young children love to eat hands, what parents should do is to provide them with a safe and healthy environment.
1. Do a good job of cleaning your child's fingers
2. Store sharp and small objects to prevent children from eating
3. You can provide safe and hygienic teething sticks, toys for your child, and do a good job of cleaning before and after your child uses it
4. Check whether the clothes and bedding are hairy and change them in time
5. Keep the living environment clean
It is not easy to be a parent, it is even more difficult to cultivate healthy and promising parents of children, and it is everyone's responsibility to cultivate the flowers of the motherland.