We’ve tried everything. Everything. We’ve read books, we’ve exhausted all of the options we can come up with. We’ve even gone into avoidance mode. Nothing is working. As it turns out, our daughter is likely what is characterized as a Highly Sensitive Child. It’s a trait that Dr. Elaine Aron has defined. It means that …
Behaviors
This page is all about teaching behaviors to babies and toddlers, dealing with tantrums, enforcing consequences, using positive reinforcement, and more!
If you’d rather view these posts in list form, please visit the –> Behavior Page.
In these posts, you’ll find information about setting expectations with regards to behaviors, and making corrections using discipline. Things like tantrums are addressed, along with teaching positive behaviors such as saying please and thank you.
These posts discuss using rewards systems, positive reinforcement, and consequences in a consistent manner.
You may also be interested to view the regressions page, and the leaps and milestones page. Often there can be behavior disruptions during regressions and leaps. It is important to know about these topics as well!
This post originally appeared at Christine Keys blog in September of 2018. Our daughter is insanely well behaved. She is very mature. She is also very passionate, and very strong-willed. And she’s three and a half. Put that all together and we get the occasional screaming fit. These screaming fits are what I can only …
Today we have a guest post from Christine Keys. She is a member of the Babywise Friendly Blog Network, and I love her take on discipline. These are 4 very important things to remember when it comes to disciplining toddlers! You’ll find my guest post over at Rogers Party of 5. Today I’m writing about …
It’s Babywise Friendly Blog Network week! We are all writing on the topic of “fears”. See below for the full schedule of topics and links from all of these wonderful ladies! Today, Christine over at the Christine Keys blog, is has 3 great ideas to help conquer your toddler’s “irrational” fears. We all know that …
It’s Babywise Friendly Blog Network week! See below for our full schedule this week (8 AMAZING posts on Babywise series topics that are not schedule or sleep related). Today is my post on “How to Give Instructions to Your Toddler & Achieve Successful Results”… It may be of surprise to many, but the Babywise theory …
This was a requested post following the post discussing the 18 month sleep regression (why it happens and what to do). I just want to take a minute to outline how we are using the sticker chart, because it has been extremely effective! We’ve been using the sticker chart for 22 days now. Caroline has …
My daughter recently started a mommy and me gymnastics class. We got there early, as we do for most things. As I was getting Caroline ready and setting our things down, another little girl (also in the class) came up to Caroline. As little ones do, she got right up in Caroline’s face (maybe an …
I am not sure what I was thinking- no wait…I was thinking I wanted to sit for the first time all day! LOL That’s what drove this decision…. We had just gotten back from dinner and it was a nice day out. We greeted Moose (our chocolate lab) and invited him out in …