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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