What are the reasons for children masturbating? How Parents Properly Face Child Masturbation

Children's masturbation not only refers to the act of using their hands to caress their genitals for sexual pleasure, but can also be achieved by repeatedly rubbing the perineum in other ways to obtain a pleasant feeling. In general, masturbation is a normal phenomenon during children's growth and development, just like sucking fingers, which is a way of self comfort and is not harmful in itself.

Reasons for masturbation in children

1. Parents often tease their children's sensitive parts

Some children's masturbation habits are formed due to frequent stimulation of their genitals from a young age. Everyone has some special parts on their body that have a strong sense of stimulation. They are called "pleasure parts", such as the lips, cheeks, nipples, genitals, anus, and other parts, especially the genitals and nipples. If they are frequently stimulated by external factors, they can easily cause children to develop a subtle feeling, and even arouse strong curiosity and sexual desire towards the genitals.

2. Lack of parental care

When children's spiritual and emotional needs are not met (their energy is actually very strong), they do not have as much activity as adults to obtain more joyful feelings. At this point, children lack the companionship of their parents, or when their parents have disharmonious relationships, they will seek comfort and alleviate boredom through the most primitive means.

3. Encountering difficulties in life

When a child enters an unfamiliar environment, such as just entering school. Alternatively, the child may have encountered setbacks when interacting with others recently, such as being scolded by teachers at school or having difficulty integrating into a new circle of friends. There are also children who have difficulties in learning and are under pressure from parents or teachers. These reasons may all lead children to choose the most primitive way to comfort themselves and obtain a pleasant feeling.

How Parents Properly Face Child Masturbation

1. Don't punish or scold children

Some parents often use intimidation and punishment to prevent it, but the punishment is ineffective, which can easily cause anxiety and panic in their children, forming cowardice, sensitivity, inferiority, or loneliness. This is more likely to make their children seek comfort from masturbation and increase the frequency of masturbation. So when parents discover that their child has a habit of masturbating, it is best not to point it out, but to find ways to divert their child's attention, such as giving them novel toys to play with, telling them interesting stories, or playing games with them, etc. This way, children do not have the opportunity to masturbate, and gradually correct this bad habit in tense and interesting activities.