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Toddler Discipline Finding A Good Balance Of Actions
Being a parent now for approximately sixteen years I really understand the fine balance between toddler discipline, and squashing the spirit of a kid.
When my first daughter Ellie was born I was completely new at this thing termed parenting, and I discovered most of the parenting books to be contradictory at best and many simply silly at worst. This may seem harsh to many new parents who are searching for an assured path as a parent.
I understand being a parent is a tricky business specially when talking about discipline and especially toddler discipline, if you opt for the free range strategy and just let your kids 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 entirely dictating the agenda and totally running your life.
However if you opt for total discipline as liked by numerous over the years, then you run the risk of completely losing the true essences of your children's persona.
I would like to state that their is a holy grail of toddler discipline, that you could follow and tick off the list as you go, and believe me a lot of people would try and offer it to you like this. The way I see it, it's about two core things boundaries and communication particularly as your kid begins to get to the toddler stage and beyond.
I still find this to be the case with my 16 and 13 old kids, I have what i call 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 understand, however within those boundaries their is a number of opportunities of freedom of expression and chances to grow as a human being which I personally feel is necessary.
To do this although good communication is essential while implementing toddler discipline, to this end I have been really privileged to have learnt things like NLP that have assisted me shape my speaking skills and body gestures to get maximum involvement with my kids.
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