Question
Is it okay for parents to show little interest in their children? There’s a neighbor’s child who has been crying themselves to sleep since birth, and their parents never comfort them. When they fall and hurt themselves, they can’t get any comfort from their parents. The child has been sucking their thumb for comfort for a long time. Is this kind of parenting okay? Is it possible for the child to stop sucking their thumb one day?
Answer
Children suck their fingers because there are unsettling factors in their psychological state. Sucking fingers is a form of spiritual comfort. Such children have a very lonely inner world and are also timid. This kind of education is very harmful to the formation of a perfect personality in children, and it is easy to lead to obsessive-compulsive tendencies in the future, making it difficult to solve problems correctly. Therefore, it is still necessary to show some concern for the children. Parents are the early education books for their children, and they will learn from this. Please parents take this seriously.