As preschool teachers, we often see children putting their hands into their mouths, but we often teach them: "Your hands are dirty, don't put your hands into your mouth, otherwise you will get worms in your stomach..." After hearing this, the children will immediately take their hands. Come out, but when you turn around, you see your hand in your mouth again. No matter what you say, they will still knowingly do it. I am very distressed and don’t know how to get rid of my child’s bad habit of sucking his fingers.
Recently, the kindergarten is carrying out creative activities. In order to cultivate children's good and civilized habits of loving hygiene, we launched the "Healthy Baby" activity based on the characteristics of children in our class who love to listen to stories. During the activity, we used storytelling to teach children about hygiene, love bathing, and cut nails frequently. But after the activity, there were still children sucking their fingers. On this day, I saw in the activity class that other children were playing with building blocks seriously, but Pengpeng put his hand into his mouth and sucked it. I walked over and took his hand away, and then told him: "The teacher said Be a good child who loves hygiene and is civilized. If you have bacteria on your hands, you will get a stomachache." After saying that, he put his hands down, but when I looked at the other children, he put his hands into his mouth again. Helpless, I had to call him to me, "Other children are building blocks, why are you sucking your fingers?" He just looked at me with his hands in his mouth, without saying a word, and I asked again: "Are you happy? I like to listen to stories. The teacher will tell you a story, the story of "Little Bear in Hospital"." After telling the story, I asked him: "Why does Little Bear live in the hospital?" He told me in a low voice: "Because Little Bear doesn't like to wash his hands. He loves to suck his fingers, and the doctor said he has worms in his stomach, so he needs to be hospitalized." I asked: "Then do you want to be like a little bear?" He told me loudly: "No." I asked: "What if you don't want to be hospitalized? , what should I do?" He thought for a while and told me: "I will never put my hands in my mouth again, and I will be a good hygienic child."
In daily teaching activities, similar things It often happens that as educators we should think about how to get children to change their bad habits instead of just ordering them and criticizing them.
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