Parents should not panic if they find their child masturbating. Doing so can correct their child's masturbation

Some parents often touch their children's external genitalia in order to show their love for them, and they particularly enjoy teasing their boys' penises, laughing happily while teasing them. After repeated stimulation of the genitalia and the generation of pleasure, even if adults are not ridiculed, children will still seek pleasure by raising themselves. Over time, they develop an interest and habit in raising the genitalia.

Parents Neglect Cleaning Sensitive Parts of Children

Some parents have misconceptions about children's hygiene and cleanliness concepts. They always believe that cleaning children's faces, hands, feet, and body is sufficient, often neglecting the attention of their reproductive organs. In fact, children's reproductive organs are very sensitive and can be stimulated due to unsanitary conditions. At this point, children can eliminate discomfort through frequent scratching, which can lead to pleasure over time and develop unhealthy masturbation habits. For example, children with pinworm disease, eczema or inflammation of the vulva in young girls, and foreskin inflammation caused by phimosis in boys can all cause itching in the vulva. Therefore, children use leg friction to relieve itching, and repeated actions can form habitual movements.

Unable to satisfy emotions

Children's masturbation behavior is also related to environmental and psychological factors. If parents do not pay enough attention to their children on weekdays, have distant relationships with them, have cold emotions, and lack close physical contact and verbal care, this will make the children seek comfort through self stimulation, and masturbate to obtain a temporary discharge of loneliness. As a result, over time, they develop this "masturbation addiction" masturbation habit.

Strategies for correcting masturbation in children

Some parents often use intimidation and punishment to prevent their children, but the punishment is ineffective, which can easily cause their children's anxiety and fear, forming timidity, sensitivity, inferiority, and loneliness, making them seek comfort from masturbation. Therefore, when they discover that their children have masturbation habits, it is best for parents not to criticize them, but to find ways to divert their children's attention, such as giving them novel toys to play with or telling them interesting stories.

Many people believe that masturbation is only possible for young boys, girls, and adults after entering puberty, so it is unbelievable that young children will masturbate. In fact, this phenomenon has its own reasons for existence.