Do children often shake their legs unconsciously as soon as they sit there, and even can't help themselves? Many parents will vigorously scold: "Sitting without sitting, standing without standing", in order to warn their children that shaking their legs is an uncivilized and uneducated body movement.
Many parents think that their children's legs are a parenting problem, but they are actually largely related to their children's inner development.
Children always like to move around, like to make trouble, unconsciously shake their legs, bite their lips, talk to themselves, make strange noises, deliberately touch others, or slam the door hard, and even a little like to coax, where he seems to be,
These are all children who are providing sensory stimulation to their bodies, but it is obvious that these habits are not too good habits, if the child does not change for a long time, let it form a solidified neural network, and it may form a stinky problem of "repeated teaching" in the future.
This subconscious sense of excitement in seeking sensory stimulation will deepen the child's sense of identity with his or her own behavior, and it is difficult to improve it in a short period of time, even if parents and friends are kind enough to remind them.
Children have to see the essence through the phenomenon, and most of the logical circles in external behavior come from the lack of inner perception. For example, children from single-parent families are afraid of black and timid, which may be largely due to the lack of a full sense of security in their hearts. In fact, the logic of shaking legs can also be traced back to the child's inner world.
The main function of the proprioception system is to present a body map for the brain, so that the brain always knows where its body is, what kind of posture and what kind of movement. In particular, mature proprioception can accurately provide information to our brain about muscles and joints, such as whether muscles are stretched or contracted, and whether joints are bent or straightened.
This sensory information allows our brain to further give precise movement instructions and direct the body to make the right body movements.
Therefore, parents should understand that proprioception is the premise and basis for the brain to control and direct the body.
If a child has proprioceptive dysfunction or the development of proprioception is not yet mature, then his ability to control his body is relatively limited, so there will be a dilemma of repeated teaching, the child may know his body position, but he does not know how to do the action, what action is more appropriate, and there is no way to really control himself, often in the subconscious of "I know, but it is difficult for me to realize it, and I can't even do it".
In addition, if the child lacks excessive proprioceptive awareness, he will continue to seek and stimulate himself all the time.
To put it simply, the more unconscious the state may be, the more you like to shake your legs, and even sometimes you can't help but shake and can't stop, these are the reality of children's poor attention, which is mainly manifested in more redundant movements, transient disorders of behavior, or instinctive body reactions.
This unconscious leg shaking is the child's confirmation of his own existence through this established sensory need.
Children who love to shake their legs can only perceive their physical existence in the shaking of their legs, perhaps in the eyes of our parents, this is a bad problem, but for children, it is a kind of self-seeking to find value of a behavior mode, the lack of internal proprioception will prompt children to seek some specific actions from the outside world, and then make up for the imbalance of self-feeling.
Therefore, the child's leg shaking is not necessarily a bad habit, or the child is intentional, but a lack of internal perception, and the proprioceptive system will naturally take shape as the child grows up, but it is also hindered by many factors.
First of all, observe whether the child's leg shaking is in a "distracted" phenomenon.
Psychologists believe that children need sensory stimulation in the process of growing up, and this stimulation will bring children an inexplicable sense of pleasure, and this state of distraction is a kind of extreme recognition of their own seeking sensory stimulation and a kind of acquiescence.
If a child is addicted to shaking his legs, it is largely the euphoria brought by shaking his legs that makes him head up for a short time, even if the parents scold him to stop, it often backfires.
At this time, the best way for parents is not to blame and reprimand strongly, but to distract the child's attention and let the child get sensory stimulation in doing other things, such as exercising with the child, or preparing dinner together and a series of things that can stimulate the child's senses.
Secondly, you can let your child practice the action of "heels touching the ground and lifting the forefoot as much as possible" to enhance your child's limb control.
This training method is completely opposite to the traditional leg shaking action forefoot support, which greatly improves the habitual leg shaking phenomenon caused by excessive force on the forefoot in the child's sitting position.
However, if the child's front and back soles can evenly step on the ground, the habitual probability of shaking the legs will be greatly reduced.
Of course, you can also use other tools such as sports bandages to help children correct the problem of uneven force on the soles of their feet in a short period of time, so as to break down the behavioral basis of children's leg shaking from the beginning.
Finally, set an example for your children.
Sometimes, 80% of the bad problems of shaking the legs of the child are learned from the father's back, and if the child is still young, you can also play the game of wooden man with him to strengthen the child's body control.
Children slowly learn to control their limbs, which also greatly promotes the development of the brain, such as: exercise children to blink their right eye, open their left eye, stretch exercises, to perceive the changes in the joints of the body, talk to children more in the process, understand their true thoughts, and talk to children in an equal state.
If the child is already very old, at this time, the physical education will have to be slowly weakened, you can try the "effect to find the cause" education method, to create a false danger situation for the child, so that the child first feels the frustration and tribulation, and then with the child to find the cause and corrective methods. For example, you can ask your child to punish him lightly and then work with him to correct the problem of shaking his legs.
Of course, although shaking legs is a trivial matter in the family, it also contains many educational concepts, as parents, you should pay more attention to your children's daily behavior, pay more attention to your children's inner world. Don't see your child's bad habits, get angry and reprimand them harshly. In the process of educating your child, ask yourself why your child does what he does, first consider the simple external factors, and then the complex internal factors. In this way, there will be fewer and fewer minor problems in the child.
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