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Toddler Discipline Finding A Good Balance Of Behavior
Being a parent now for approximately sixteen years I really understand the fine balance between toddler discipline, and squashing the spirit of a child.
When my first child Ellie was born I was completely new at this thing known as parenting, and I came across a lot of the parenting books to be contradictory at best and a few simply stupid at worst. This might sound harsh to some new parents who are searching for an assured path as a parent.
I understand as being a parent is a tricky business specially when it comes to discipline and specifically toddler discipline, if you opt for the free range strategy and just let your children somewhat develop in the vain hope all is going to be fine, then you'll probably be living some kind of living nightmare, with your child entirely dictating the agenda and totally running your life.
However if you opt for total discipline as liked by many through the years, then you be in danger of completely losing the true essences of your children's character.
I would like to state that their is a holy grail of toddler discipline, that you may follow and tick off the list as you go, and believe me some individuals would try and offer it to you that way. The way I observe it, it's about two core things boundaries and communication in particular as your child starts to get to the toddler stage and over and above.
I still find this to be the case with my 16 and 13 old children, I have what i refer to as my fall back position, that's as long as I will carry on any given issue, that's my boundary that in many instances my kids over a number of years have learnt to recognize, however within those boundaries their is a lot of opportunities of freedom of expression and chances to grow as individuals that I personally feel is essential.
To do this although good communication is vital when implementing toddler discipline, to this end I have been really fortunate to have learnt things like NLP that have helped me shape my speaking skills and body gestures to get maximum involvement with my kids.
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