Why do children always squeeze their eyes

Parents think that their children’s eye-rolling is a bad problem, so they criticize them and blame them. From a medical point of view, the child’s eye-rolling is actually not intentional, but an involuntary muscle twitching, which is medically called Tourette’s syndrome, or combined vocal and multimotor twitching disorder. This condition tends to be more prevalent in children between the ages of 4 and 7 years old, with children as young as 2 years old showing this behavior. Squinting is actually a tic disorder that tends to manifest in two parts, one with motor tics and the other with vocal tics. Tic disorders are also due to the combined effect of genetic, social, psychological and biological factors, but the specific etiology and pathogenesis of tic disorders are not known. If you find your child blinking, grinning, shaking his head, shrugging his shoulders, kicking his legs, stretching his arms, or moving his abdomen unconsciously in daily life, or if your child clears his throat, twitches his nose, makes hiccuping sounds for no reason, or even says some foul words, these situations must be of concern to parents, and excluding pathological factors, your child may be suffering from tic disorder. Tic disorder is not the same as ADHD. In the clinic, parents often consider their children’s eyebrow squeezing and shoulder shrugging as hyperactivity, but it is actually a kind of tic. If you find that your child is squeezing his eyebrows and making faces, 1. parents should learn about the disorder and understand that these behaviors are not intentional, so don’t reprimand him; 2. you should clarify the reasons that cause your child to squeeze his eyebrows and make eyes, maybe the teacher criticized him, maybe the parents scolded him, maybe the child was frightened, these situations should be understood; 3. you should learn to use rhythmic gymnastics to make your child Relax. In the deep inhalation of arms outstretched, deep exhalation of hands down, and then squatting upright, so that the child’s body slowly relaxed, the movement of twitching will ease some of the situation. Rhythmic exercises are actually a form of behavioral training, so you need to insist on doing them every time, so that this behavior slowly forms a habit. For children with vocal twitch disorder, deep breathing is a good way to slowly inhale deeply, count 5 and then slowly exhale, keep exhaling deeply and then exhale slowly so that the vocal twitching will also be well relieved.4. If the child’s squeezing performance is very serious and has affected learning and life, go to a professional developmental association clinic or psychological clinic for formal treatment.