Successful Parenting Tips for your Toddlers

Use these tips to help you discipline, manage tantrums, avoid power struggles and parent your toddler with confidence! Below are some tips to help you parent toddlers and preschoolers with respect. Keeping the relationship with your child strong and healthy.

Each of these things are essential to creating solutions and strategies that actually work. Solutions that leave you feeling calm and in control.

HOW TO DISCIPLINE TODDLERS

“Punishment” is focused on creating a painful experience to teach your child a lesson. “Discipline,” on the other hand, seeks to guide your child, helping them find a better way to manage the situation in the future.

If you’re focused on punishment (or if you grew up with parents who used punishment), you may see your child as “bad” or “misbehaving” or “bratty.”

You will despise parenting through the toddler years if you feel that they need to pay for their bad behaviour or that pain is the only way that they will learn their lessons.

You may feel that they need to “pay for their bad behavior” or that pain is the only way they will “learn their lesson.” Unfortunately, this doesn’t build a strong relationship, and, chances are, you are going to despise parenting through the toddler years.

You may look for ways that you can come alongside your child and teach them a different solution, support them as they struggle, or respond with empathy. Also, build your child’s emotional intelligence, improve their problem-solving skills, grow empathy for others.

TODDLER MELTDOWNS AND TANTRUMS

No one can really throw a tantrum better than a toddler. Tantrums are totally normal during the toddler and preschool years, so that’s reassuring.

As the toddler’s brain is still developing and maturing, they find it difficult to navigate the world with limited language and power. Using positive parenting and respectful discipline, you can actually decrease the number of tantrums and the intensity of the meltdowns your child experiences during the day.

PARENTING WITHOUT YELLING

Most parents yell at their kids at one time or another. However, for some parents, yelling becomes a bad habit. Another problem with yelling is that it doesn’t teach kids how to manage their behaviour better. If a child gets yelled at for hitting his brother, he won't learn how to resolve problems peacefully.

Explain the negative consequences for breaking the rules to your child ahead of time. Use time-out, take away privileges, or use logical consequences to help your child learn from his mistakes. Give your child plenty of positive attention to reduce attention-seeking behaviours. So set aside a little one-on-one time each day to motivate your child to keep up the good work.

If your child struggles with particular behavior problems, create a reward system. Sticker charts work well for younger children and token economy systems can be effective with older children. Reward systems can help turn around behavior problems fast.

Yelling often leads to a power struggle. The more you yell at a child to do something, the more defiant she might become. A clear warning that you plan to enforce shows your child that you're serious about being in charge.

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