Saturday 28 May 2011

How to Stop Bad Habits in the Children

Many children develop bad habits in the early age and stopping the habit becomes quite a difficult task for the parents. These bad habits might continue till the teenage or even further in the life. They would make parents to feel shy in public several times. Bad habits do some damage to the children as other kids and people dislike them.

Stopping the bad habits is much more important act for the parents. This has to be done as early as possible so that kids did not become victims of this habits. If needed parents have to take the help of doctors and child counsellors to control the bad habits of their children. Negligence in doing so would cause lot of damage to the children.

Bad habits develop in the children dew to several reasons. Kids acquire them dew to body conditions, peer impact and negligence of parents. Parents should find out the real reason behind the bad habit and correct it to stop the bad habit.

There are several types of bad habits that a child develops. Some children put their finger in their mouth and if the finger is removed they start crying. Few children eat pecks in the nose and mud. Few children eat chalk pieces. Several children always bite nails even blood oozes from the finger tips. These are the common  bad habits among the children.

Eating mud and chalk pieces would cause health problems. Constipation, indigestion and other problems occur due to these habits. Having the finger in the mouth would cause contacting infections. Biting the nails will cause loss of strength at finger tips.

Each habit will have its own reason. Eating chalk pieces and mud shows loss of taste in the mouth for the kids. This may be due to problems in the stomach. Parents should take them to the doctors to correct the problem.

Nail biting is a symptom for the stress, a child is facing. To avoid stress children bite nails and to over come the anxiety also, they adopt this habit. In this case psychiatrist and psychologist could help the parents to stop this type of bad habit.

Parents must notice these habits and  start to take actions to stop it. Some times children may not exhibit these habits at home and people who notice them might report it to the parents. In such times the parents should not ignore them and try to find out whether it is correct or not.

It is always advisable to the parents that children should not be frightened to avoid bad habit. At early age children did not yield to such punishments and become more adamant. They must try to convince the children about ill effects of the bad habits and see that they avoid them on their own.

Parents should not feel shy to take their children to the psychiatrist because it is not a bad thing. Except in eating mud and chalk in most of the other reasons psychiatrist and psychologists could be of immense help to the parents.

No comments:

Post a Comment