What to do if your child's sitting posture is incorrect?

Children will encounter many changes in the process of growth and development, and generally speaking, incorrect sitting posture is also a common one. Incorrect sitting posture of children will have a great impact on the body. Generally speaking, incorrect sitting posture of children will easily lead to hunchback, or affect normal height growth, etc. Parents need to correct it in time and set rules for their children at ordinary times.

What should I do if my child's sitting posture is incorrect?

Causes

1. Child’s physiological reasons.

First graders are around six or seven years old. Their muscles and bones are not fully developed, and their self-control ability is insufficient. It is difficult for them to fully control their sitting posture or pen-holding posture.

2. Writing with a pen too early.

①Parents. Many parents want their children to become successful, so they let their children doodle with brushes and write with pencils too early. However, they do not guide their children to use the pen correctly in time, so that their children develop incorrect postures at an early age.

②Kindergarten. According to the guidelines for early childhood development, kindergartens do not allow children to write with pens too early, but in order to cater to parents, they have to violate regulations. Kindergarten teachers also lack guidance on children's writing, further pushing children astray.

3. The academic burden is too heavy.

① Although the Ministry of Education has made clear regulations on the homework time for children in each stage of primary school, under the banner of utilitarian exam-oriented education, the amount of homework assigned by teachers to children far exceeds the stipulated time.

② In order to complete their homework, children have to write overtime, and excessive fatigue makes it impossible for them to maintain the correct writing posture consistently. Over time, you will develop an incorrect writing posture.

4. Writing distracts your attention

Some children develop the bad habit of multitasking when doing homework. They do other things while doing homework, such as watching TV, playing, and eating. These things not only distract the children's attention, but also cause the children's writing posture to be "deformed", making it difficult to avoid incorrect writing posture.

5. Lack of written supervision

①Teachers. Because teachers are facing not one child but a group of children, it is indeed unrealistic to ask them to pay attention to the writing posture of every child all the time. If children are not supervised, they may just write crookedly, which will lead to incorrect writing posture over time.

What to do if your child's sitting posture is incorrect

If a child has not developed the correct writing posture, he or she needs to be corrected. Correcting a child's bad writing habits is a long-term and arduous comprehensive project. Parents need to persevere and persevere to the end. First, teach the child the correct posture; then supervise carefully to avoid repetition, and never tighten or loosen the posture; finally, cultivate the child's self-management ability, let the child "do his or her own things", and cultivate the child's confidence in developing the correct writing posture.

Tell him the correct sitting posture and the correct way to hold a pen. The key to correct sitting posture is: "head straight, body upright, arms open, feet stable". Keeping your head straight means holding your head upright, not tilting left or right, and keeping your eyes about one foot away from the paper; keeping your body straight means sitting upright, with your waist straight, your body slightly leaning forward, and your chest about one fist away from the edge of the table; keeping your arms open means keeping your shoulders level, your arms open, your shoulders relaxed, one hand holding a pen and the other hand pressing on paper; keeping your feet stable means letting your feet hang naturally, apart and flat on the ground, not one in front of the other or stacked together. The correct way to hold a pen is: lightly pinch the pen shaft with the end of the index finger and thumb, about an inch away from the tip of the pen, support the pen shaft with the first joint of the middle finger, and place the ring finger and little finger naturally bent underneath. The upper part of the pen shaft rests on the joint at the base of the index finger, and the pen shaft maintains an angle of 45 to 50 degrees with the paper surface. When holding a pen, the four fingers except the thumb should be naturally stacked together, one next to the other, without being loosely spread out, and the palm should be as empty as possible, so that "fingers are firm and palm is empty". These movements and key points are demonstrated one by one, so that he can understand and comprehend them sentence by sentence. We review them with him before each writing, and correct each other. At the beginning, he may feel overwhelmed, the pen may not obey him, and the writing speed will be slow. At this time, give him appropriate encouragement and praise to help him build self-confidence and improve self-control to prevent him from being lazy and continuing to use the original bad pen-holding posture.