What I enjoyed about toddlers: Watching them grow! It is so fun seeing them learn so quickly! The toddlers are discovering life and love, learning how much they can control in their environment. They are mastering their bodies, first the large motor skills, of walking, running and jumping. Then the small motor skills of eating with silverware, coloring and building block castles. The toddlers are learning what it means when people speak to them, and how to communicate their needs with words.
One day, my almost 3yr old son made a mess while eating breakfast. I told him he could go outside and play as soon as his mess was cleaned up. He rolled around on the floor, avoiding the clean-up. When I was done with my work in the kitchen, and ready to leave the room, I minded him, “you can go outside and play as soon as you’re done cleaning up your mess.” His reply, “Don’t worry mom, you’ll forget!”
What I learned from toddlers: The need for consistency.
Action: Read, Ask, Listen, Practice
Read: There are many fabulous parenting books available to help us.
My favorite is Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster W. Cline, M.D. and Jim Fay. With love and logic parenting, we’re able to help kids grow to adulthood, to become contributing members of society. If reading isn’t your thing, Love and Logic has CD sets available to buy and Podcasts to download.
I’ve learned that we are really not doing the kids any favors by doing work for them. It would have been much easier to just pick up the cereal for my son, but what would have happened in the future? I’m sure I’d still be picking up his messes! They would just be bigger and more painful!
Ask: Ask specific questions to the right person! Find a mentor. Stay close to someone who has succeeded in raising positive children.
Listen: to yourself. We have a natural instinct of how to help our children learn and progress. When we’re given advice, we can discern it’s value. As we study from the best teachers, we can decide if our children will progress doing what is taught.
Practice: Consistency will be one of our goals. We will be learning and growing with our children. We’ll be overcoming habits that were created as far back as our early childhood. As we are working on reaching the goals that we have set, we need to celebrate our accomplishments as we do our children.
June 21st, 2011 at 2:24 pm
“What I learned from toddlers: The need for consistency.” Spot on comment. All of us need to learn from an early age about boundaries. If someone says no, they mean it. It is important to note that consistency does not mean aggression. It can be achieved calmly on the majority of cases. If this does not happen with toddlers it will be a harder skill to teach as they get older!
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June 21st, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Christopher,
Thank you for confirming what I learned with my first 2yr old. Now I watch my daughters with their two year olds! It is a skill, a habit we need to master!
Linda
January 9th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
I was having fun when I read about this toddler and I agree what said of the first commenter here..
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January 10th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
By The way Linda Do you have page here For Ebook strategies? because I need to learned something about this..
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January 11th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Alice,
I’m sorry I don’t have anything posted here. I simply created content until I felt I had something worth sharing, put it together, hired a Fiverr artist to create a 3d cover and here it is! I’m sure if you Google ebook creation you’ll get a ton of help!
Linda
January 12th, 2012 at 3:25 am
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January 12th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Hey Alice,
Why don’t you get a Gravatar connected to your comments (Your email actually)? Just go to http://gravatar.com and make it happen!
Linda
January 24th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
I; try make my mail change into new but still now my photo not coming up.. I dont know why..
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January 12th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Hi there! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say I really enjoy reading through your blog posts. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that cover the same topics? Thanks a lot!
January 15th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Anges,
I’m sorry to say that I don’t know any other sites about children. I started this blog to as I was figuring out my niche! I love parenting and I’m good at it but I decided to find my purpose in my circumstances and started MSrelief instead~ Thanks for your comment!
Linda