Constantly repeat the baby such phrases: "Do not suck the sponge! Do not gnaw at the marigold! Do not pull hair! ", But is there no point? Ask a child psychoneurologist!
For bad habits , doctors have a special term - "dermatomania." It comes from the Greek name of the skin - derma and the word mania - "obsessive craving for something", and all together translates as "the desire to damage your skin." This is a signal of which something internal discomfort - anxiety, fear, insecurity.
Be able to understand them and come to the rescue in time!
In such cases, the main thing is to reduce the causes of nervous tension: if the kid is afraid of the dark, leave the door ajar so that he can see a strip of light or turn on a night lamp in the nursery, enter a ban on terrible fairy tales and cartoons. Encourage "adult" moments in his behavior: teach to read, swim, ride a bike, write down in a dance club or sports section and often praise for success.
Seeing that the child sucks his lip or finger, gnaws his nails, offer him a caramel, ask him to fold a pattern from the mosaic, build a house from the details of the designer, go through the beans or groats, fold puzzles, draw something - in a word, think of how to switch the attention of the child! Useful and harmful habits of children should be given due, because not all habits are too bad.
Usually, children stop sucking their fingers by the age of 4, but if the baby has something to worry about, for example, it was recently given to a kindergarten or if the relationship has grown in the family, the bad habit can develop into an irresistible urge to bite fingers, gnaw, and sometimes eat nails - the so-called onychophagy. For a child, this is a way to relieve unreacted negative emotions: anger, sadness, annoyance, despair, irritation. Feelings such arise, when at it something is impossible or when from it it is demanded too much, load it superfluously with developing employment. And negative emotions result in aggression towards oneself.
How to react to the mother who caught her child after nibbling her nails? Do not make comments, but try to shift the attention of children to something more interesting. The girl can promise a game in the nail salon, when the marigolds are intact. A boy - a toy with a remote control (just say that it will hurt and uncomfortable to press the buttons with fingers with bitten off at the very bottom of the nails).
Do not forget about the praise and incentive prizes for intelligence and success, even the most insignificant. Allow sometimes the baby to let off steam, freely expressing anger and hostility and do not worry about such outbreaks. Learn to defuse the situation in a game form, declaring war between a "bad" wolf and a "good" hare, pale-faced and Indians, elves and goblins, earthmen and aliens - anyone.
Useful herbs for the kidneys
To brew useful for kidney tea is suitable for a number of plants with anti-inflammatory and diuretic action.
Just prepare the infusion from the grasses taken evenly. Collection number 1 - leaves bearberry, grass horsetail, juniper berries. Collection number 2 - grass horsetail, kidney tea and knotweed.
Use as a medicine the root of burdock, which possesses a diuretic, antibacterial and immunostimulating action.
1 table. spoon dry burdock root pour 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 2 hours. Let's have 2-4 table. spoon 4 times a day after meals.
The tummy hurts ...
This is a typical child complaint. Many babies tummy aches against the background of general well-being. But the reason must be sought! Often it is in increased nervous excitability and even in hidden depression. And this is not a trifle! Readiness for stressful reactions, acute perception of external and internal stimuli become fertile soil for chronic diseases and, in the first place, cardiovascular diseases. Do not ignore the recurring cases of abdominal pain in a crumb - tell all about the children's neurologist!