Children Nail Biting
Isn't it painful as a parent to watch your children bite their nails? For me at least it was. I had a daughter who was 12 and she couldn't stop biting her nails. I started by saying "no", and as she continued I got angry at her.
This was the worst thing to do.
When you prohibit or punish an habit, you are in fact reinforcing it! A psychological fact is that saying NO is as useful as saying YES. So, a year has passed and she no longer bites her nails. Even when she is stressed. In this Squidoo I want to share some suggestions to stop nail biting on children.
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If you want to know more about children nail biting, these are the places to go!
- Stop Nail Biting
- Nail biting is a tough habit to leave. And I think this has to do mostly because it is related to anxiety.
- Hypnosis for Nail Biting
- The quest of millions of people to get rid of the habit of nail biting has brought us different options for treatment one of the best is hypnosis.
Tips to Stop Children Nail Biting
- Give the example. My wife helped me with this: as she found our daughter biting her nails she told her how beautiful everyone would think she is with nice nails. NOTE: Do this in a friendly positive way.
- Give them an alternate way to deal with anxiety - without then noticing it. If you catch your child starting to bite their nails, give him or her another thing to do. Distraction is the key, and learning new ways to cope with anxiety.
- Don't punish. As I said this means reinforcing the habit.
Useful Sites to Stop Nail Biting
- Stop Nail Biting
- Are you one of those desperate souls eager to stop nail biting habit forever? Nail biting (medically known as onychophagia) enters our lives silently and refuses to leave easily. You may have tried with the power of your will, but I know this in most cases is not enough.
- Berkeley Parents Network: Nail Biting
- Berkely Parents Network information on children nail biting
Why Is Your Child Biting Her Nails?
Helping them quit this nervous habit also means understanding them
Right now, her only exit to the anxiety may be this habit. When talking about this don't address her problem directly, but come "from the side", talking about how other people do this as a result of anxiety.
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