Better Toddler Tips

Parenting a toddler can be extremely challenging and utterly exhausting. While your toddler is naturally enthusiastic and energetic, she may sometimes behave like a little savage, making you feel as though you’ve been given the mighty task of civilising her! Thus you have to learn some toddler tips for the future of the child and life of yourself.
And what is the best toddler tip? To understand, identify, and differentiate the two dynamics that make up human behavior. Temperament and personality. Common toddler issues such as tantrums, separation anxiety, whining, aggression, and lying can be dealt with so much more effectively once we understand the uniqueness of our childs temperamant and personality as well as becoming more in tune with our own.
In fact, the entire parenting experience is altered once we become more in tune with these aspects of human behavior. It also is a great relief to caregivers when, for instance, they realize that they are not to blame for a child’s behavior.
The main difference between temperament and personality is that temperamant cannot be altered, it is ‘hardwired’, it has a genetic and biological basis.
The area in which you have the most influence over in the formation of personality is in creating the right environment for your children. Environment impacts personality. The environment fostered will make all the difference in the world for your toddler. Most of your parenting should be focused around three vital areas of life until they achieve mastery: morality, health and safety, and life skills.
It may seem sometimes that your toddler is contrary by nature, but really she just wants what she wants and she wants it NOW! When reasoning and explaining doesn’t work - ‘No, you can’t go outside because it’s dark, raining and bedtime’ - try diverting her attention with an activity she can enjoy with you. Try ‘racing’ with her to her bedroom - there’s nothing a toddler likes more than being chased!
This information is helpful to see where a child is ‘coming from’. Toddlers are really just very big babies with shoes on, so make sure that you give her as much attention and one-on-one time as you gave her when she was a babe-in-arms. This can be particularly challenging if a new baby enters the family, but your toddler needs you just as much as your newborn does, so perhaps try to have some activities lined up that you can do with your toddler in those rare moments of peace.
It’s very easy to lose your sense of humour when you’re down in the trenches with a toddler, so try to take a little time for yourself on regular basis. It will restore your perspective and remind you that the world is bigger than your kitchen. Parents who ignore a child’s inborn nature are doomed to struggle against it, while parents who identify and work with it find the parenting journey more pleasant. That unique temperament REALLY becomes apparent during the toddler years doesn’t it? Once you have formed a picture of your child’s temperament you can devise the unique approach that’s best suited to your unique child