What's in your mouth! Mother never knows why children love to stuff their mouths!

Wen丨Fuguo mother

"Baby, came to eat, what were you just playing with?"

"Hmm..."

"What's in your mouth?"

The child squeezed his mouth and shook his head.

"What's in your mouth?!" The

kid denied: "Nothing."

"I have seen it. Listen, I count one two to three, and spit out what is in your mouth."

"1,2 ......" The

child spit out.

"You have marshmallows, lipstick and whistle in your mouth?!"

The child nodded innocently: "Yeah." Z1z

mother collapsed: "Don't put any rubbish in your mouth, how much did I tell you It’s been all over!”

When you can’t see, the child doesn’t know how many inexplicable things have been stuffed into his mouth...

This seems to be a common feature of children, they are very good at playing with what they eat. Son, take the playthings to eat...

So when the mothers saw the child's mouth still, kept closed, and told him to vomit, he would shake his head vigorously, and would be instinctively afraid, and would not dare to be too intense, in case If the child swallows something in a panic, it will be troublesome.

After all, in the news, children swallowed coins by mistake, and there are too many incidents of swallowing buttons by mistake. The things collected by children who swallowed by mistake in the hospital can show up a whole row.

Why do children always stuff their mouths no matter what they catch?

The Brown Institute of Cognitive Science in France found that the behavior of babies who have to put them in their mouths whether they pick up blocks or crayons is not a bad behavior, but a natural brain mechanism.

is just like what we perceive. Children will play with what they eat and eat with what they play because of the way they know things.

For adults, every thing has a classification. To know them more is to know what this thing is through rational abstraction, through concepts, and then use corresponding methods to understand it in depth. But for children, knowing everything requires a full range of perception, seeing with eyes, touching with hands, listening with ears, tasting with mouth, patting, smashing, and building a completeness through various senses. Awareness.

This is the first way for humans to understand the world, and it is also a child's first learning skill. Through this action, different areas of the child's brain work together to promote the development of children's abilities.

Secondly, children like to put things in their mouths, which is also an instinct.

For babies, the sucking response is his survival skills to obtain food. The presence of hunger makes the child rely on the sucking response so that the mouth, the sensory organ, maintains a special meaning for the child.

Therefore, the child brings satisfaction and security to himself through sucking. For example, a pacifier, although it is not possible to eat milk, but the pacifier can bring comfort to the child, so the child will always hold a pacifier that cannot eat milk.

And this behavior has a specific stage, this stage is the child's oral sensitivity period.

After the baby is born, the first period that he faces is the oral phase, which is a manifestation of the baby in a state of complete independence. He must rely on his mother or other nurturers to live.

Generally speaking, the child’s oral phase is 0-1, which means it will end after 1 year old, but if the child’s needs are not met during the oral phase, then the child’s later growth process This gap will be left and needs to be remedied.

For example, some children love to bite their nails when they grow up, it is often that the children's oral needs are not met.

So, in the face of a baby who loves to stuff his mouth, shall we let it go in order to satisfy his oral desire and desire to explore?

Instead of forcibly stopping, it is better to provide children with a safer environment.

For example, for children under 8 months, their range of activities is relatively limited, we can prepare a relatively clean and hygienic environment for the baby, and let him play in it.Pay attention to hygiene, wipe clean with wet wipes, disinfect frequently, keep them well, etc., so that children can explore the world with their mouths at ease.

Of course, parents should be careful when bringing a baby, don't prepare small toys for the child, always watch the child to prevent the child from swallowing it by mistake.

For babies over 9 months old, they are already very skilled at this time, or they have asked their parents to take him to a wider range of activity spaces, and they can even start walking by the age of one year, and the children actually Can understand what the adults say.

At this time, we have to guide children to learn not to put dangerous things in their mouths.

There is a treasure dad who did a good job. He did an experiment in front of his children.

He brought a chicken breast and a good button battery.

Then cut open the chicken breast and put the battery in. After a while, he showed the child where the battery was placed. The chicken breast had become scorched and rotten, and the button battery was broken.

Then he told the child that the battery should not be swallowed in the mouth, otherwise your stomach will be the same as this piece of meat.

The child is thoughtful after seeing it. Although it may not be completely useful, the child can understand that what parents say to him is reasonable. This scene will come to mind when you put something in your mouth.

In short, we must maintain children's curiosity and desire for exploration while ensuring safety!