In the case of hand eating in a three year old child, it is important to focus on distraction and increase aversion therapy.
Hand eating is relatively common in infants or children, and the treatment of hand eating is different at different ages.
For three-year-old children, if there are still eating hands, this is a bad behavior, need to carry out timely and effective intervention, pay attention to divert attention, reduce the number of times to eat hands, at the same time can be applied to the hands can eat but bad taste of food, play the role of aversion therapy.
The child’s hand eating is a behavioral habit, but also a form of self-soothing, need to pay attention to more accompanied by the child, to increase the sense of security. Usually after a period of correction, the child’s behavior will gradually disappear.