There are babies who cry about everything, some when they are 2 or 3 months old they calm down and others continue their whole life the same way. They are children and babies crying about anything, it seems that everything bothers them, they continually demand our attention. It is what we call a crying child.
In many cases, the constant whining ends up turning into a tantrum, and it drives many mothers to despair. The best we can do is keep calm, try to understand the child and calm him down. Know if your crying has emotional or physical causes. We will talk about this and other issues in this article.
Physical and emotional factors that influence the child to cry
If a child is a crybaby, he cries about anything, almost always it is for physical or emotional causes. The former are easier to identify:
- The boy has sleepy and tired.
- Period of incubation of some disease, or physical pain.
- El hungry It also causes this reaction of tantrum and crying.
The emotional and affective causes are more complicated to detect, some of them are:
- By situations that exceed the child when exploring the world. For example, the child may feel angry at not being able to climb the stairs, when he is barely standing.
- Lack of stimuli due to overprotection. The child does not have the necessary stimuli for him to explore and acquire skills that lead him to overcome obstacles.
- Lack of attention. The child cries to get the attention that the parents give him and to meet his emotional needs.
Differences between tantrums and the child who cries about everything
En other ocasions We have talked about the tantrum in boys and girls. Sometimes we confuse the tantrum with the crying child who asks for everything. With the tantrum, the child yes or yes tries to impose himself or to achieve something that had previously been denied him. It can occur before adults or before other children, but with the presence of adults. This cry has a very high volume and intensity, and it can be accompanied by tantrums on the floor.
When a child he is a crybaby and cries for everything, the crying is much less intense. It is associated with almost any communication or request for attention from the child, It is shown in communication with adults, and with other children. They are boys and girls between 24 and 30 months, they have not substituted the baby cry for language as a more complex form of communication.
This substitution occurs gradually, because crying continues to be, for a time, the fundamental way of expressing the child's primary needs. What happens, with these children, is that they are unable to use language to express their new secondary needs.
What can you do with a crying child?
We can give you a tip, or tip, which is usually very effective for children who cry about everything. When the child is crying, don't listen to what he says, explain that you cannot understand what he is saying because he is crying. Ask him to tell you what he wants without crying. Children learn very easily, when he does it, he acts in correspondence with what he says or wants. In a short time the child will stop crying about everything and will learn to express himself not from crying.
The purpose for a child to stop crying is to improve control of your emotions, not make yourself immune to them. We must not get angry with a crying child, but understand that he may be having a bad time, and accompany him. Hugs are the hand of a saint. Sometimes children spiral into a bad mood, for no apparent reason. To interrupt it, we can change the context, invent a game to distract it, put on music and make the good mood appear again.
Be that as it may, remember that crying has an important communicative function of affectivity in people, It helps us discharge emotions and in this sense reduces suffering. Also in children.