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Nervous Habits in ChildAt one stage or another almost all children suffer from nervous habits. Inner tension is reflected in nervous habits. When a child feels nervous they express their emotions in nervous habits, they can either feel nervous about their acceptance or their ability to handle particular situations. A child will feel even more tense and insecure with nagging, public humiliation or punishment, this can cause a greater need for continuing habit that the parents are attempting to eliminate. Getting to the roof of the trouble is the only way to break a child of their nervous habit, try to alleviate the cause of their suffering as far as possible to eliminate these habits. Sympathetic reminders, praise for efforts at self control and showing an understanding on the difficult process of breaking the habit are ways a parent can help a determined youngster overcome their nervous habit. Some of the common nervous habits are described below: Thumb SuckingBottle fed babies are more likely to develop thumb sucking rather than babies who are breast fed. In the first five minutes most breast fed babies get their needed milk and then, although she may get a little extra milk, the rest of the time is spent satisfying the sucking instinct. A bottle gives babies milk more quickly and their sucking urge isn’t completely satisfied so they resort to thumb sucking. Thumb sucking in older children is usually as a result of three things; either they are not contented with their home life, they don’t have anything to occupy them or they are not well fed. A child will find no time to suck their thumb if they are happy and interested in their life at home and has lots of friends and toys. You should allow your child to such their thumb for a little while when they are tired or falling asleep. Before the child enters school this habit usually goes away. Nail BitingIn the wake of thumb sucking a child usually goes on to nail biting. When a child enters adolescence this habit usually stops due to a pride in appearance that is growing. Nose PickingAs a result of comments by teachers and classmates nose picking usually stops after a child starts to go to school. TicsAn uncontrollable muscle spasm is defined as a tic. Blinking, squinting, throat clearing, dry coughing, hair twirling, leg swinging and stuttering are the most common types of tics. Tense children with fairly strict parents are more likely to develop tics when the parents show constant disapproval, set standards too high, or provide too many activities such as music, dancing and swimming and want them to excel in all of them. A child bottles up their irritation and keeps backfiring it in the form of tics since they are too afraid to rebel against their parents. On account of their tics, children shouldn’t be scolded or corrected since they are not in control and they are more likely to vanish entirely if not attention is paid to them. It is the parents responsibility to make sure that both home and school life for their children is happy, satisfying, relaxed and agreeable. |
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