Phenomenon one: love to eat hands Almost all mothers have a headache, is that babies love to eat hands, babies in a few months old like to put their fingers into the mouth, and then tastefully “eat” up, take out he will put in again, if you reprimand him, he will become very angry or even to cry. Mothers are most worried about hygiene and consider this a bad habit, and always try to correct it, but often with little success. Phenomenon 2: Putting everything in your mouth Babies around 1 year old are a big headache for parents because they pick up everything they see and don’t hesitate to put it in their mouths for a taste. Whether at home or outdoors, as long as he can pick up things he wants to put in his mouth. At home, mom and dad can always wash their hands and disinfect all the toys, but outside there is no way to control it, the baby will play with the soil on the ground, and then pick up the stones and put them in the mouth, so many mothers do not know how to do it. Phenomenon three: after tasting spit out Parents are reluctant to baby to eat those things that can not eat or too big to chew and digest, but your baby does not care about this set, pick up to the mouth to put, timid mother afraid to get stuck to the baby, but he often chew two and spit out. For example, once your baby grabbed a peeled orange petal and put it in his mouth. You worry that he will swallow the whole orange petal and the skin, but to your surprise, the baby actually spit out the peel and swallowed the flesh. You finally really understand the famous saying: children initially use their mouths to perceive the world. Phenomenon 4: Taste all the flavors Your baby is very difficult to discipline, you buy him back snacks and all kinds of fruit, he has to open each packet to taste, each fruit has to bite, and everything only taste a bite, but also must taste each kind. For example, you bought your baby several boxes of different flavors of chocolate. You were going to let the baby eat a box and then eat another box, but the baby ate a few bites of the first box of chocolate will not eat, have to open the second box, the second box of chocolate did not eat a few bites, have to open the third box again …… you told him: “can not do so, are open to eat, and also will be broken! ” The baby does not listen, you stop him, the result is that the baby cried out. Phenomenon five: love to bite Your baby will suddenly bite adults a bite, other children do not let go, moving to bite others, bite finished also look at others with an innocent face, as if the matter has nothing to do with them, but also do not recognize their own mistakes. For example, the kindergarten teacher was surprised to see a child suddenly hugging another child and biting them on the face, very quickly. The teacher rushed to pick up the child who had been bitten and found a circle of teeth marks on his face. However, the biting child did not seem to realize that he had done wrong and looked at the child he had bitten with an innocent face. Phenomenon 6: Love to bite things Babies like to pick up something and put it in their mouths and bite it, whether it’s a straw or a teething stick or another toy or even a table corner, put it in their mouths and chew and bite and pull and tug, or even bite and fling things around. For example, recently you found your two-year-old baby not only likes to bite, once you also saw him chewing the corner of the table with his mouth, and it seems to “eat” with great pleasure. You think chewing on the table is unhygienic and also a bad habit, so you stop him from chewing. However, he will still pick up other things to chew. Phenomenon Analysis Usually, the baby’s oral sensitivity period will be concentrated in the stage from birth to 2 years old. The duration of the child’s oral sensitivity period has a lot to do with the environment they are in. If during this period, parents can provide the baby with a scientific environment, allowing him to “eat” a variety of things, in other words, that is, allowing the child to use the mouth to explore the surrounding environment, objects, the child’s sensitive period will soon pass. On the contrary, if parents do not understand this sensitive period, hinder the child’s mouth to explore things, the child’s this sensitive period will last a long time, may be three or four years old, he will still secretly put things in the mouth “taste”. If parents do not allow their children to explore with their mouths, it will be difficult to establish a connection between the child itself and the outside world, which will largely affect the child’s development of his or her potential. You know, even the abstract concepts like “soft” and “hard”, children are using their mouths to “taste” out. When a child is thirsty, he often refuses to drink water and asks his parents for yogurt, juice and other drinks. Even a newborn child is the same, when he drank sweetened milk powder, he will not drink the ordinary milk powder without sweet taste. Why is this so? In fact, this is because the child’s mouth and tongue are born with the function of tasting. When he tastes “delicious” and “tasty”, he will naturally not want to eat and drink “ordinary”. The example in Phenomenon 4 shows that children like to use their mouths to make comparisons, and they like to open all the food packages, take one bite and then stop eating, and then take another bite. In fact, this is not the child’s capriciousness, but the child uses his mouth to experience and recognize the taste of chocolate, and he constructs his inner self by understanding the external things, but the parents do not understand this. Therefore, when parents refuse to do so for various valid reasons, the child’s heart will constantly struggle and even rebel against his parents by crying. 2, use the mouth to know the world Parents should know one thing, children use the mouth to taste and mouth to know the world are two different concepts, he will use the mouth to know all kinds of things, including their own hands and feet. Tactile sense is the baby’s main means of understanding the world, and the lips and hands are the most sensitive to touch. For a 3-month-old baby, the function of the mouth is huge, first of all, through sucking to perceive the existence of the hand, perceive the grasping function of the hand, when the baby knows that his small hand can grasp things, will be through the hand to grasp the surrounding items are sent into the mouth for “test”, this process also completed and sound oral to know Until the hand is completely awakened, hand sensitivity period, and help and speed up the development of oral sensitivity period, the baby so open the door to the world with the mouth, with the mouth and the world to establish a close relationship, when the baby began to try to use the mouth and hand to explore, his world began …… phenomenon six in the reason why the baby will bite the corner of the table and will bite, it is likely that they are using their tongues and teeth to sense objects and explore their surroundings. Of course, the baby biting in Phenomenon 5 is also likely to be doing so for this reason. When a child bites, he does not have any malicious intent. So parents should not think that the child is learning badly because this is his unintentional use of mouth and teeth to know things. When a child bites, just hold him aside. To sum up: when the child in the mouth sensitive period, parents should properly cooperate, let it pass smoothly, otherwise this sensitive period will last a long time, may be to three or four years old, all hinder the child “with the mouth to try” practice is actually hindered the child’s intellectual growth.