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Tips for Planning Long Outings With Toddlers
Does planning long outings with your toddler cause a lot of stress and anxiety? When you know your toddler will be out of their normal environment, possibly missing naps, staying up way too late, and melting down, it can be hard to look forward to big events that are supposed to be fun. With the…
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Handling the “No” Phase: 20 Seconds to Yes
Does your toddler seem to say “no!” to your every request, making even simple to-dos feel like a battle of wills? Toddlers who have entered the “no” phase are often looking to assert their independence, but sometimes they actually don’t have the skills they need in order to do what we have asked. How can…
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Technology, Toddlers, and Tantrums
Does your toddler tantrum when you say that it’s time to turn off the TV? Do you feel guilty for sometimes giving into the cries for more knowing your toddler probably watches too much, but you don’t know how you would survive the day with any less? You are not alone. So many parents have…
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Why Toddlers Really Throw Tantrums
Does your toddler sometimes get upset by something seemingly minor and you don’t understand how so much emotion could be triggered by something so small? Maybe your toddler starts screaming at the mere mention of a snack even when you said he will get one in five minutes, or your toddler cries because you gave…
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When We Take Our Toddler’s Behavior Personally
When our children say and do things that hurt us, emotionally and physically, it is common to want to take their behavior personally. In those moments of hurt, it is easy to feel that our children are out to make our lives miserable. Yet, more often than not, our children are actually hurting themselves and…
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When Toddler Behavior Gets Out of Control
When your toddler’s behavior gets out of control, it can be so hard to know what to do to help regain peace in your home. If your toddler is stuck in a cycle of escalating aggressive behavior, like hitting, biting, screaming, and throwing, and nothing you do seems to help, they might be stuck in…
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Why Toddler Behavior Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
Just when we think we found the perfect new strategy to address our toddler’s behavior, our toddler’s behavior gets worse. Has this happened to you before? Sometimes, when we try new approaches, our toddler’s behavior gets worse before it gets better. Why does this happen? And why, on other occasions, does our toddler’s behavior get…
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Sharing Part 2: How to Build Sharing Skills
Picture this, you are at the library with your toddlers and they are running around trying to take books and activities away from other children. What do you do? How do you help your children respect others boundaries and share? In Part 1, we talked about how sharing is a positive, pro-social skill that helps…
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Sharing Part 1: Toddler Turn-Taking and Sharing Explained
We have all heard the phrase “sharing is caring,” but that saying has recently been called into question in online parenting spaces where some have claimed that sharing can actually harm children. One of the problems with parenting advice online is the reliance on short form content to relay information. Short videos and captions can…
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5 Common Pitfalls of Toddler Boundaries and How to Avoid Them
Parents hear from all around them that their toddlers need boundaries to stop unwanted behavior, but what can we do when the standard advice for implementing boundaries does not seem to work? Maybe your toddler is engaging in an aggressive behavior like hitting and you have tried all the redirections and boundary holding scripts, but…
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