What's wrong with a child biting his lower lip?

If you do not pay attention to educating your children, they will develop many bad habits, and these bad habits are likely to affect the children's health and cause certain harm to them. Many parents find that their children always bite their lower lips. Why is that? Many parents are very worried, but they don’t know what’s going on. Why do children bite their lower lips?

There are several reasons why people bite their lips:

1. The sucking instinct is not satisfied;

2. Seek excitement. Biting your lips puts a certain amount of pressure on your lips, which is quite stimulating;

3. When you are lonely and have nothing to do, you look for someone to rely on. This is a kind of reliance.

If your child bites his lips at a young age (under two or three years old), you don’t have to worry about it affecting the development of the mandible. However, when the child is five or six years old and the permanent teeth are about to grow, this problem will arise. Of course, the sooner it is corrected, the better.

Some of the methods you use are correct, such as diverting attention, and some are incorrect, such as scolding harshly. Since his lip biting behavior was already firmly established, diverting his attention several times was completely useless. Scolding him harshly made him afraid and he would turn to biting his lips for support.

You can try it like this:

1. The "intensity" of the things that distract his attention should be increased, that is, they should be very novel and he should like them very much, and the fun he gets from playing with them should be much greater than that from biting his lips.

2. Don't always pay attention to his behavior, don't be too nervous, and don't nag him. If you keep staring at his behavior, it may make him more persistent in doing this behavior in order to get your attention (children are very concerned about their parents' attention).

3. Let him hug a stuffed toy before going to bed, or tell him a story he likes. If he stops biting his lips, say "good" to him and kiss him as a reward.

4. Take him to the dentist and tell the doctor in advance that the doctor is here to correct his bad behavior of biting his lips. Ask him to cooperate and tell the child that biting his lips will cause his teeth to grow crooked in the future and he will not be able to chew food, so don't bite. Generally speaking, children are more afraid of doctors, and they will listen to what the doctor says, which is more powerful than what their parents say.

5. You can ignore the issue of lip biting for a month (of course you still have to pay attention to it secretly), relax a little, give him a richer life, and delay his sleep time (so that he will be more tired when sleeping). Maybe he will give up automatically and stop biting his lips.

6. Going on a short trip or staying with relatives or friends will completely change your lifestyle. Where you live, where you play, and even the bed you sleep in will be different. You will most likely change it when you come back.

If children often bite their lower lips, they may bite their lips, so parents must pay attention to this. If they find that these bad habits are still present, they must be corrected in time. The above article has also introduced to you what happens when children bite their lower lips? I hope parents can pay attention to helping their children develop good living habits.