First of all, understand why children suck their fingers:
(1) The child biting his finger indicates that he is nervous. For example, when a child starts to sleep alone, it is a kind of self-comforting behavior to relieve tension. (2) Because parents are strict with their children, their expectations are too high, and their children are under too much pressure, they seek comfort by sucking their fingers. (3) Some children bite their fingers because their parents neglect to cut their nails. When nails grow out or have burrs, children will feel uncomfortable and bite with their mouths. Over time, they will develop the bad habit of sucking their fingers and biting their nails. (4) The attention and love that children want are not properly satisfied.
The solution is:
1, take her to the dentist and ask the dentist to tell her that finger sucking is not good for teething (it was agreed with the doctor in advance). It doesn't matter now. Children will listen to doctors better.
2, pay attention to the time when she sucks her fingers, and don't let this problem spread from bedtime to the whole day. It would be much better to keep her hands busy all day.
3. Finger sucking has different performances in different children, and some children also suck their fingers during the day. But your children only suck their fingers before going to bed, just like adults reading newspapers before going to bed. It is difficult to correct it because it will affect sleep. You can tell her stories and read picture books before going to bed, or even postpone her bedtime a little, so that she can fall asleep without sucking her fingers. You've tried to divert your attention, but it didn't work very well. It's probably that the distraction is not attractive enough. Change something, okay?
4. Must be motivated to correct the problem. You are a big child, and you are going to be a kindergarten child soon. If you eat your thumb again, the children will say that you are still a little sister! " ""If you eat your thumb again, the teacher won't like it! " Wait, after encouraging her to "grow up", she gave up the problem that this little brother and sister did.
Education can be achieved in the following ways:
(1) unhealthy fingers
Finger sucking is a common behavior habit of small class children. Small class children's thinking level is still in the stage of intuitive action, and they need to directly perceive things in order to gain relevant experience and understanding. Therefore, in teaching activities, children's age characteristics and psychological development level should be fully considered, and children should know that finger sucking is a bad habit through specific people and things. So there is the following story:
Teacher: "children, teachers often see some children put their little fingers in their mouths to eat." I don't know if you have noticed. "
Teenager: "Teacher, I saw Fang Jiagan and Li He."
Teacher: "Wow! There are so many! Then let's talk about whether they are doing this right? "
Teenager: "No."
Teacher: "Why? How do you know? "
Teenager: "dirty fingers and bugs." If you eat them, you will get sick. If you are sick, you need an injection. "
The teacher asked several children with dirty hands and long nails to hold out their hands for other children to observe.
Teacher: "Since everyone knows that eating fingers is a bad habit, what should everyone do?"
Teenager: "Don't eat your fingers."
Through the teacher's effective questioning, the child initially felt that sucking fingers was unsanitary and a bad habit.
(2) Finger pain
Through the last activity, some children who are sucking their fingers realize that their behavior is wrong, and quickly take their fingers out of their mouths and show shyness. Children who have done this kind of behavior also quietly reached out and secretly observed. I think this is the best time to guide children into this link (finger pain). So I performed with a puppet (painful expression) and said, "Do you know me, little friend?" I am a finger. I'm sick, very sick. Because my master always sucks me in his mouth and sometimes bites me! You see, even the nail that protected me was chewed as short as possible by my master, and I became like this. How ugly! Wrinkled and bare, it is inconvenient to do things. I feel really bad! "The children were attracted by the performance, so I seized the opportunity to ask," Son, why did your fingers become like this? "
Through the performance, the children felt the pain of being bitten and sucked by their fingers. I understand that sucking your fingers is not good, and your fingers will feel uncomfortable.
(3) Happy fingers
Providing children with vivid teaching AIDS in activities can stimulate their interest in activities. So I showed my happy fingers to the children again. "Hello, children! We meet again, and now I'm so happy. My master never bites me again and often gives me a bath. Look, how clean and beautiful I am! No more wrinkled and bare! "
Through the performance just now, let the child understand that "because the owner no longer bites him, he often gives him a bath." He became a happy finger. "
(4) clean and beautiful fingers
It is a common psychology for children to want to win prizes, which will encourage them to gradually get rid of the habit of sucking their fingers. I seized this psychological characteristic of the children and announced to them in a low voice: "The teacher has good news. The little hand kingdom will hold a beauty contest in a few days to give prizes to beautiful and clean little hands. Does the child want his little hand to win the prize? Now, please look at each other's little fingers and talk about whether their fingers are clean and beautiful? "
One by one, the children held out their little hands. I carefully looked at each child's fingers and took out the cases I found. And remind to help children correct the habit of sucking their fingers. Tell the children who like to suck their fingers at ordinary times that as long as they correct the bad habit of sucking their fingers, their little hands will definitely become clean and beautiful.
5. Don't give children a chance to suck their fingers.
Whenever you see a child sucking his fingers, take some measures to guide him. For example: let the child complete an action by hand; Hand the child a toy; Guided by words, tell him that sucking his fingers will make them ugly; Distract children's attention through game activities; If the child can't eat his fingers within the specified time, reward him. In this way, the time for children to eat their fingers will gradually decrease, and this habit may eventually disappear.
6. Take negative activities to practice.
Ask the child to suck repeatedly for a period of time until he feels uncomfortable and unhappy, and he is bored with this kind of action, prompting the child to get rid of this bad habit.
7. Putting something smelly on your fingers (Coptis chinensis) makes you unhappy when you suck your fingers, or she may give up.
8. Put a small piece of metal on your chin to make it uncomfortable to suck and give up. This method is very useful abroad. You can ask the dentist if there are any in our country. Never pretend to be yourself.
9. Parents should not be too nervous. In fact, licking your fingers will really affect your teeth, leading to uneven dentition. It is impossible before the age of five. When I was three or four years old, the problem changed and it didn't affect teething.
Remember: never nag, because nagging will stimulate children's rebellious psychology, which is even more excessive.
Don't threaten, beat and scold, which will make children more nervous and get a sense of security by sucking their fingers.