Talking To Toddlers: Dealing With The Terrible Twos And Beyond

FREE Toddlers Parenting Tips Presentation: Unusual Tips to Effective Parenting

How to deal with behavior problems in children by Chris Thompson – Author, Parenting Expert and Certified NLP Practitioner
In this FREE presentation below, you’ll learn:
  • The only real reason your kids are not already well behaved.
  • The way most parents talk to their kids, causing them to do exactly what you don’t want
  • The crucial emotional bridge you MUST establish with your child before you try to change their behavior.
  • The one word you are probably abusing, which triggers those awful temper tantrums

“Over the next couple of years, she has to learn to do as kids do and babies don’t, which means changing from diapers to underwear and out of a crib into a bed,” says developmental child psychologist Penelope Leach, Ph.D., author of Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five. “She has to be able to eat and drink without bottles and sippy cups. And she has to know enough playground rules to get along with other kids.”

Here are a few tips I have learned over the years:

Teaching Your Toddler

If you want your toddler to understand something, you need to show her what you want as well as explain it, Leach explains. (“This way up for the sweater, see?”) If you want her to do something, you usually need to do it with her. Do you want her to go somewhere? Take her there. If you want her to come, go get her. When you need to protect her from traffic, use your body to keep her in safety as well as your voice to tell her to stop.

Encourage Your Toddler

Even though the “terrible twos” is a trying period, this is an important time for your child to develop independence. Try to make this stage in his life as positive as possible. “I think the things that you do to help your children really blossom are to give your children freedom and to support them in their efforts,” says Jen Meyers, co-author of Raising Your Child.

Provide support when your toddler gets frustrated, and help him find an outlet for his frustration. Also, you could take him on walks, or run around outside. Teaching your toddler how to deal with his emotions now will pay off for him in the future.

Author: Kaycee

Posted On: November 25, 2015 @ 11:01 am