Toddler Behavior

Dealing With Toddler Behavior with Storytelling

Toddler Behavior

Toddlers are testing the waters. They are developing physically, intellectually and definitely emotionally.  

 Toddler behavior can be triggered by any one of these three structures:

- wanting to be independent

- being curious about everything around them

- anger developing into tantrums

Sometimes parents want to change toddler behavior and they don't know where to begin. Logic doesn't work very well with toddlers. There are many ways to change toddler behavior without resorting to the ineffective use of logic. I specialize in teaching parents how to use language patterns to create change in toddlers. But aside from language patterns, one method is to simply tell as story.

Story telling is as old as mankind. Everybody can relate to a story. A movie is just a motion picture version of a story (rather than being purely spoken words).

Toddlers respond beautifully to stories. If you craft your story effectively, it can have a wonderful hypnotic effect in terms of its ability to implant a message within your child's brain.

Here is a simple example: Let's pretend your child doesn't eat well at meal time but constantly wants to snack on junk food. You might naturally be tempted to explain the negative health consequences of not eating well. "This little boy would eat a lot of junk food during the day, but at meal time he would always refuse what his parents prepared for him. 

A few fine points that is important for telling stories:

1) Use plenty of detail so that your child is really engaged in listening. Make up parts of the story that you know will interest your child. 

2) Feel free to be really obvious about the point of the story. You don't need to make it subtle as you would if you were doing this to an adult.

3) Tell the story at a non-related time. So you wouldn't tell this eating story right at meal time. 

4) Do not explain it. Never (ever) explain the message in your story. Just trust the unconscious mind's ability to understand the message.

5) Use stories to help you create change over a period of time. Don't expect an instant change. If the change is big, then tell several related stories over a period of days. 

Storytelling works.

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Toddler Food

Toddler Food for the Picky Eater

Executive Summary by Peg Baron and Rae Glispin

Toddler Food

What comes to mind when you think of toddler food? If you think of prepackaged snacks or jars of chunky baby food in your grocery store's baby food isle, then think again. You want to have your child eat the same thing as the rest of the family most of the time, but there are other times when grown up food is neither appropriate nor the healthiest option.

There are times when you can get a little creative with your picky eater, especially at snack or lunch time. That's when toddler food is the best choice. Here are some general rules of thumb:

1. Toddlers like finger food.
Good finger foods are peas, carrots, bananas, sliced grapes, gelatin wigglers with fruit, green beans, natural all-meat hotdogs, hard cheeses, cream cheese wrapped in natural lunch meats and sliced, medium pasta shells stuffed with something, or small homemade granola wedges. Cut sandwiches into squares and triangles, and cut carrots into slivers.

2. Toddlers like to choose.
Give your toddler options, but not all the options. This works pretty good with the picky eater.

3. Toddlers like foods that come with cool names or good stories.

My kids were willing to try broccoli after my sister told them a story about broccoli trees. Try naming some of your toddler food, just for fun. Amanda's Amazing Apple Spread or John's Jumping Green Beans might be the perfect thing for today's menu.

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Parenting Tips for Toddlers

The Most Effective Parenting Tips for Toddlers

By Savel Benaya

Parenting Tips for Toddlers

Parenting tips for toddlers is important. Toddlers can be great fun and their curious nature will certainly one of the steepest learning curves both the child and you will ever face, but when your toddler is prying into something which could guide to them becoming hurt or hurting someone or something else, you need to take the reins and apply toddler discipline.

It is awfully tiresome and hectic to handle toddlers. All toddlers like to have things in their own way and try to test the limits and patience of their parents. It is no easy feat when you are trying to discipline your toddler and deciding on the best and most effective way for both you and your toddler. Now, you can find some of the most effective parenting tips for toddlers that have been tried and tested.

The best positive behavior tool is distraction

Distraction or redirection works wonders in encouraging positive behavior in parents. As parents, we only need to distract the toddlers from the negative behavior or activity to something more positive. Your toddler is bound to lose interest in it when this is done repeatedly in a specific scenario. This is because toddlers are usually interested in what their parents are interested in and when you don't show interest in something, slowly but steadily your toddler will lose interest in it too.

Give time out.

While your toddler might not respond to it in the initial stages, he is bound to enforce positive behavior in himself when he is aware of the concept. It is highly recommended of parenting tips for toddlers that one keeps the 'time out' brief, one minute a year usually works fine. It is also vital to tell the toddler the reason for the time-out as well as to let him know that the same behavior would again ask for the same healing. While it is a proper idea to discipline children even on an outing, as parents we should take enough care to safe-guard the self-esteem of our toddlers by not doing it in front of others.

Appreciate positive behavior and co-operation.

This is indeed the most effective of all disciplining strategies. Toddlers, like children of any age, love to be appreciated and encouraged. When they see that they are appreciated for a particular activity or behavior, they are more likely to do again it to attract similar admiration. It is worth mentioning here that appreciating is an integral part of parenting toddlers with a strong will, in fact this is the only disciplining strategy which has an instant effect on such toddlers.

You can find several other parenting tips for toddlers that help in enforcing discipline and positive in toddlers, it is important to act according to the situation, and in the best interest of your toddler. Coping with toddlers and gaining the skills your need to be a great parent happen a day at a time, you are only able to get better through tackling these issues. So, don't give up!

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