Common children's behavior problems, parents come and pay attention!
——It is recommended that parents pay attention to collection
We often hear some parents express such troubles: "If the child loses his temper at every turn, is it bipolar disorder?" "The child is timid and does not like to speak, is it possible that it is a manifestation of autism, too uneasy."
Indeed, because the child's expression ability is not fully developed, psychological problems are less likely to be detected than adults, but there is no need to be overly anxious, and it is very important for parents to judge children's behavior in time.
The detection rate of children's behavioral problems in mainland China is 13.97%~19.57%, which is mostly manifested in daily life and is easily ignored or exaggerated by parents. Therefore, it is important to distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior in children.
First, children's behavior problems
1. Breath-holding seizures
Breath-holding episodes, also known as apnea, are pauses in breathing when your baby cries heavily. It generally occurs in infants and young children aged 6~18 months, and rarely occurs after the age of six.
Breath-holding episodes are not associated with convulsions, and mom and dad do not have to be overly anxious. Parents' anxiety and excessive care will reinforce breath-holding attacks. In daily life, parents should strengthen family upbringing and avoid violently beating and scolding children or overly accommodating children.
If you encounter a breath-holding attack, pay attention to keeping the airway open to prevent foreign body inhalation and accidental injury.
2. Suck thumbs and bite nails
It is normal for babies to have physiological sucking needs after 3~4 months, and babies often suck their fingers, especially their thumbs, to stabilize themselves. This behavior usually occurs when quiet, lonely, hungry, physically tired, or before going to bed, and generally disappears with age.
In response to this phenomenon, parents should psychologically encourage children to build confidence to correct bad habits, and do not scold, sarcastically or apply bitter medicine to their fingers.
3. Children's leg rubbing syndrome
It is a motor behavior disorder that causes excitement in children through friction, often occurring before falling asleep, after waking up, or when playing alone.
During seizures, children have their legs straightened, crossed and clamped, hands clenched into fists or grabbed objects hard, girls often like to sit on hard objects, hands on their legs or lower abdomen, boys often lie prone on the bed, rubbing back and forth. This habit and action mostly relieves itself with age, not precocious puberty, and parents do not need to be overly anxious about this problem.
4. Enuresis
Most of the babies aged 2~3 have been able to control bladder urination, such as children will still have symptoms of involuntary urination after the age of five, that is, enuresis.
Enuresis can be divided into two categories, primary and secondary, primary enuresis is mostly due to the ability to control urination, no organic lesions, more family history, more men than women. Secondary enuresis is often caused by systemic or urinary disorders. Others such as intellectual problems, mental trauma, etc. can also cause secondary enuresis, and the symptoms can disappear after the primary disease is treated.
5. Defiance and tantrums
When ideas cannot be satisfied, children cannot express them in words like adults, and often use defiance or tantrums to release their emotions. Mom and Dad need to understand that children's loss of emotional control is a reasonable response to setbacks, and give them time and space to recover emotionally.
If your baby can't recover his mood, continue to be in an antagonistic state. Parents can ignore it first, but prevent the child from being injured in the process, and verbally advise afterwards.
Parents should be role models for controlling emotions and help children recognize the importance of controlling emotions.
6. Aggressive behavior
Some babies show aggressive behavior during play, repeatedly biting, scratching, or injuring others for no apparent reason. The reasons for aggressive behavior are more complex and may be influenced by adult behavior or frustrated.
Children exposed to aggressive behaviour should not resort to corporal punishment and should be allowed to reflect on themselves and learn to control themselves. Parents should understand and respect their children, help their children vent their emotions in socially acceptable ways, and help them gain community acceptance.
7. Disruptive behavior
Some children will inadvertently destroy things because they are curious for fun, want to show their abilities or energy, and have nowhere to vent. Some children take destructive behavior because they cannot control their anger, jealousy and other emotions.
Such children should be carefully analyzed for reasons and given appropriate guidance and behavioral therapy, and reprimanding and corporal punishment of children may be counterproductive.
Second, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is what we often call ADHD, which refers to children with normal or basically normal intelligence, showing inattention disproportionate to age, excessive activity regardless of the occasion, and is one of the most common developmental and behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
The diagnosis is mainly based on the history or the manifestations and observations of specific behaviors.
Treatment requires tripartite collaboration between hospital, school, and family, and treatment and follow-up in accordance with chronic disease management protocols.
3. Learning disabilities
Learning disabilities are special developmental disabilities, which refer to babies having obvious difficulties in learning and using special skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, calculation, reasoning, etc. Children with learning disabilities are not necessarily mentally retarded, but due to their cognitive nature, they are unable to adapt to school learning and daily life.
Children with learning disabilities should carefully understand the situation, analyze the causes, carry out key corrections for specific psychological disorders, and strengthen education and training.
4. Autism spectrum disorder
Autism, also known as autism, is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by social disorders, language communication disorders, narrow range of interests and activities, and repetitive stereotyped behaviors.
If detected in time, early intervention and treatment, the vast majority of children will have varying degrees of improvement, with basic independent living, learning and working ability.
The training intervention methods in treatment mainly include applied behavior analysis therapy, treatment education course training for children with autism and related disorders, and interpersonal development intervention therapy.
Medication-assisted therapy can also improve symptoms such as emotional lability, attention deficit, impulsive aggression, and suicidal self-injury.
Parents timely find and face up to children's behavior problems, appropriate psychological intervention or treatment, so that the baby can grow up healthily, and parents are no longer anxious.
Reference: Pediatric Nursing
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