<ul><li>Eating inedible things is because of nutrition deficiency.</li><li>The child can develop such kind of tendency to keep sucking or eating odd things may be due to the deficiency of micro-nutrients.</li><li>Now, if there is any deficiency and the parent comes to know and gives him/her supplements, the child can easily get rid of the habit, because it was out of deficiency of say iron or calcium.</li><li>But when the habit continues, sometimes the parent glorifies this behaviour of child in front of people, e.g. “see how my child eats mud without anyone noticing him/her, (s)he has mastered this trick”. When this happens,&nbsp;the child gets the attention and enjoys it and doesn’t want to leave the habit.</li><li>The child does it again and again just to seek attention. Whereas in other cases, if the parent punishes the child very harshly, the child gets into the rebel mode and repeats this unwanted action again and again to harass his/her parents.</li><li>What a parent can do is just be compassionate and distract the child, get the child into activity where his/her hands are occupied and in such way gradually the child will get rid of the habit.</li><li>Another underlying reason for kids to develop such tendencies can be the <strong>pica syndrome. </strong>It is a psychological disorder where children develop such harmful eating habits.</li></ul>

<p>Many children develop a habit of eating things like - limestone, pencil lead, mud, paper, chalk, or clay. Kids don't do this out of habit but because of the deficiency of nutrients in their body.</p>

Eating inedible things like chalk, clay and sand

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my child eats chalk, clay and paper

Read the article to understand why children develop such random eating habits.

Eating inedible things like chalk, clay and sand

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