Children and Parental Influence

Kids like imitating their parents and close relatives and family friends. This will do some good and some times bad. If the parents and other have good habits usually children will learn them. At the same time if the parents have bad habits, the children are tend to imitate them.

Imitating others is common among kids. They like it very much and it is common for them. It comes naturally to them. Since they have no control on their activities they imitate the parents and others. They take pleasure in such activities.

They imitate walking, talking and behaviour styles of their fathers mostly. They also imitate their mother and this is seen less commonly. Most of the times imitation becomes a part of their personality building. Some habits of father and mother comes genetically. Even the kids inherit some habits from their grand parents whom they did not see.

This is a good opportunity for parents to mould their children. If the parents have good behaviour and conduct children will learn them. If the parents have bad habits like lying before others, stealing things, getting angry over trivial things and lack politeness, children too make it a habit. If the parents did not keep the things in an order at home, this too will become a habit. But this rule may not apply in all times.

So parents have to be cautious about their behaviour. If they have bad habits those will have their bearing on the children, that habits shall be kept away from the kids. Even before parents come to know that kids are imitating them, it will be too late. Parents must keep their habits away from children, if they are bad.

If a father is a boozer it will have its effect on the children. Kids think that taking alcohol is not a bad thing and as soon as they become elders, they start taking alcohol and some times become boozers. This will spoil their health.

If father spends more money, children will not honor the money and they too spend more irrespective of their income levels. Father goes on taking loans, kids follow the example. In case of social rules, parents defy them, children too follow the suite.

In summery, home is a lab where children under go transformation. If the parents do bad experiments, children will become victims of them. In a home, parents must behave properly so that the children are not being influenced by bad habits and behaviour.

Parents must tell the children about the good and bad and show it in the practice. If they found any bad person around the house, it is advisable to tell the children not to follow that person at any cost. If it is possible, kids must be kept away from them.

Even in the case of environment around the house, parents must check for the bad things that are potential enough to spoil the children, it is the duty of the parents to keep them away from that place. Parents did not hesitate to change home.

Relatives and family friends are the other areas where children could be influenced. However, we can not keep the children going to them. In such circumstances, children shall be told what is bad with the relatives and shall tell not to imitate that. At the same time, children shall be told not to reveal this advice before those relatives who have bad habits.

Such type of conditions shall be handled carefully so that relations between the families did not spoil. When children imitate bad habits of the parents, it shall be handled softly. Children shall not be beaten up. They must be counselled in soft manner.

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.