Child behaviour can be one of the cutest things but it can also be some of the most annoying things.
Many of the behaviors that we call annoying are perfectly natural.
Unfortunately knowing this does not make it any less annoying to deal with.
The primary cause of annoying behavior in children is not normally a serious problem.
Some behaviors are caused by stress, some are caused by the need for attention and some behaviors are just natural stages.
Correcting most of them is fairly simple.
Things like head banging and breath holding are generally behaviors that are attention seeking.
Hair pulling or twirling, nose picking, and thumb sucking are all natural stages and are normally grown out of.
All of these things can be irritating.
Some of these are also solved by peers when they start school or pre-school.
If the behavior is severe you can do some things to lesson it or correct it completely.
The important thing to remember is that these are perfectly natural for most children to do.
You might want to try ignoring the behavior, especially if it is attention seeking.
This includes head banging and breath holding which are both hard to ignore but negative requests for attention.
Try rewarding your child when they are not doing it.
Catch your child doing something good and make sure they know you approve.
You want to give them the attention that they are asking for but need to do it when they are using a positive way.
Another reason for these behaviors is stress.
If you can find the thing that is making them stressed and correct it.
Children will hang on to certain behaviors or revert to them when they get stressed.
If you remove the thing causing the issue the behavior should stop.
Another thing to do is behavior modification.
This is simply using positive reinforcement or removal of privileges to correct the behavior.
It is basically reward when good and remove a privilege when they are not good or when they do the annoying behavior.
You will need to choose whichever behavior you view as the the worst and starting with that.
You do not want to try and modify too many at once because this will confuse your child and you will not get the results you desire.
Most techniques are fairly easy to use.
You will need to make sure that the reinforcement is logical and you will need to be consistent.
If you are not your child will get even more stressed than they were originally.
Child behaviour is not hard to change.