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Toddler Discipline Obtaining A Good Balance Of Behavior
Being a parent now for nearly sixteen years I can really understand the fine balance between toddler discipline, and squashing the spirit of a young child.
When my first child Ellie was born I was totally new at this thing known as parenting, and I found a lot of the parenting books to be contradictory at very best and some simply stupid at worst. This may sound harsh for some new parents who are searching for a right path as a parent.
I can understand as being a parent is really a tricky business particularly when it comes down to discipline and specifically toddler discipline, if you opt for the free range approach and simply let your children sort of develop in the vain expect all will be fine, then you'll probably be living some sort of living nightmare, with your kid completely dictating the agenda and totally running your life.
However if you go for total discipline as favored by numerous over the years, then you be in danger of completely losing the real essences of your children's personality.
I would like to say that their is a holy grail of toddler discipline, that you could follow and tick off the list as you go, and trust me a lot of individuals would try and sell it off to you like this. Just how I observe it, it's about two core things boundaries and communication particularly as your kid begins 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 may go on any given issue, that's my boundary that in most cases my children over a number of years have learnt to understand, however within those boundaries their is a number of opportunities of freedom of expression and chances to grow as a human being that I personally feel is necessary.
To do this though good communication is key while implementing toddler discipline, to this end I have been highly fortunate to have learnt things such as NLP that have aided me shape my language skills and gestures to get maximum engagement with my kids.
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