My son is 2 and a half years old. He has exactly the same problems as most children his age.
Our method? We ignore him when he goes naughty. He cries, we ignore him. He wants something we don't want him to touch, we say no and he starts his temper, we ignore him. After as many as 20 or more times, he knows it's no use crying over things. We love the book 'emotional intelligence' because it teaches us a lot on how to handle our emotions, and thus his.
My kid is 22 months and he also has the same problems.
1.) He does not like to walk and just like to be held by us when outgoing. But he does the opposite at the home that means he does not like sit.
2.) He lacks the patient that he does not like to sit in the restaurants for a longer time unless you give him the toys.
3.) He likes to shout.
4.) He likes to tear the papers or books; therefore, I cannot let him read the story books or cards unless the books are made by the hard papers.
We are also very tired to take care of him and what we should do now. We are no initative to take him outside.
:-(
My daughter only 13 months old but she already drive me mad too. After I read all your posts, i cannot imagine how she will be when she 踏入Trouble Two. Hope someone in here can teach me how to teach her.
I was really frustrated as I took Tiffany to a playgroup every SAT. One baby was play a toy phone and Tiffany go and take that phone from that baby, you know what, she hit the baby's face after that!!!!! I was SO embarrassing and keep saying sorry to the baby's daddy. Ooooo.......... what can I do???? I feel so BAD that my girl did something like that!
Also, when I say "no" to her, she just get mad and bite herself and hold her hand up and about to hit me. So cranky!!!
You see, young child needs opportunities to learn communication skills with their playmate. We play an important role to guide and teach them how. My experience was the more you want to stop them the more they eager to do so because they feel sad about being stopped.
For most of the time they don't meant to hit the other child just that they expect some sort of reaction from their target and the only thing they knew is they could get response by pushing and hitting.
Be positive, guide them in a positive way rather than run away from the problem.
Since I start using the possitive approach my son does improves a lot.
Being positive is mostly about nurturing young children skills, protecting them and understanding their feelings and to help them to cope with the world around them. Parents need to focus on how we help and teach using warm, caring and supportive.
- we have to learn how to play with them so that they can enjoy more and learn something from the game.
- support growth and exploration by keeping the house safe, if we could keep the house safe there will be a lots less "NO" around them. Remember, exporing and testing the envoronment is a major way of learning for childred
- preventing behaviour problems
- coping with questions being asked by young children
- Noticing good behaviour
- Increase your child's self-confidence and self-esteem
- Stimulating creativity
- Help your child to make friends
Hope can help, do not hestitate to ask if you need further explanation.
Carchu,
I absolutely agree with u. Being positive for ourselves is very importance so that our kids will be positive even on their wrong behaviour, then they'll improve.
Saying "No" "Don't" "Stop" are obviously no use for this age, because they will skip all the things u say after those words automatically! We should say "You should xxx", "This is good to xxx" or "Mommy is pleased if u are doing xxx", not only once, but repeat & repeat.
Since they're self-centered at this age, we should help but not blame on them, because they don't know their behaviour affect others.