if your child hits, bites, screams or throws tantrum
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What should you do if your child hits, bites, screams or throws tantrums? Your host, a wise old lizard, will give you the parenting advice you've been waiting for!TRANSCRIPT
What all parents with young children
need to know
Toddler Discipline:
What if my child hits, bites,
screams and throws
tantrums?
A presentation by
Stephanie Woo
Here is your host for this presentation…
Hi! I’m Bart!
I’m your host for this online presentation.
Hi! I’m Bart!
Why am I the host for this presentation?
I’m here to remind you that no matter what I look or act like on the outside -
Why am I the host for this presentation?
I’m just a lizard, with some specific needs you may not see immediately.Just like your child…
I’m here to remind you that no matter what I look or act like on the outside -
Why am I the host for this presentation?
If your child bites…
screams…
hits…
or throws tantrums…
you’re probably asking:
How can I discipline my
child?
you’re probably asking:
I can give you some discipline advice
I can give you some discipline advice
But it won’t last…
…until you find the root of the problem
I’m gonna give you a clueto what the real problem is…
mental
nourishment!Children act out when their little minds don’t have
enough
How can you your child’s mind? nourish
In short:
3. Give them activities that build on the skills of previous activities
2. Give them opportunity to do meaningful work with their hands
1. Help them do it by themselves
You probably haven’t slept in three years, so let me tell you what that means in English
1.Help them do it by
themselves
Little children want to be like us!
For 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds, this means being independent
and doing things for themselves.
Opening their own door…
Pouring their own drink
Choosing and putting on their own clothes…(at least most of the time)
If you’ve done something for them and theyare throwing a tantrum because they want to
do it by themselves…It’s okay to go back two steps and let them do it!
Children hate feeling like babies again!
If you’ve done something for them and theyare throwing a tantrum because they want to
do it by themselves…It’s okay to go back two steps and let them do it!
2.Give them opportunity to do meaningful work
with their hands
Playing with dolls or cars is fine…
…but these are even better for developing the hand and intellect
using a hammer and nails…
…but these are even better for developing the hand and intellect
cutting strawberries with a safe knife…
…but these are even better for developing the hand and intellect
sewing with needle and thread…
…but these are even better for developing the hand and intellect
Play kitchens are great…
but it doesn’t require the same kind of hand-eye coordination, care and attention
as cooking on a real skillet
Your child will love to perfect his coordination and abilities.
As long as everything is child-sized, those kinds of activities make children feel happy, independent and trusted.
3.Give them activities that
build on the skills of previous activities
It’s also called “Instructional Scaffolding.”Don’t worry if you have no idea what that
means! I’ll explain.
Skills, like pouring, should start easy,like pouring water while bathing
Then progress to pouring from a pitcher…(using a funnel takes it another step further)
before letting your child pour a bowl of eggs into a hot skillet
That skillet is really on!
Here's another example: Peeling
First, teach your child to peel a banana…
before moving her onto tangerines…
Finally, eggs.
Have you noticed any patterns recently?Have you seen any tantruming children
in any of these pictures? No!
Children who are concentrating on doing something
with their hands and absorbed in that activityare too busy to throw tantrums!
Have you noticed any patterns recently?Have you seen any tantruming children
in any of these pictures? No!
So, let’s review.
1. Help them do it by themselves
“Let it go! Let it go!Don’t hold them back
anymore!”
So, let’s review.
2. Give them opportunity to do meaningful work with their hands
They’ll surprise you if you give them the chance!
So, let’s review.
3. Give them activities that build on the skills of previous activities
Easy —> Medium —> Hard
Again…
3. Give them activities that build on the skills of previous activities
2. Give them opportunity to do meaningful work with their hands
1. Help them do it by themselves
Now, if you want to know howto do all this at home,
you should watch this great video…
Go to this website to buy this 3-disc DVD: www.RaisingYourTwins.com
It works for all children, not just twins!
Those kids are 22-month-olds and makingscrambled eggs on a skillet! I’m hungry looking at ‘em…
Okay, folks, it’s time for lunch (scrambled eggs, yummy…)
Visit again…and bring your friends next time!
Wanna learn how to create the best environment to raise your young children?
Here it is:www.RaisingYourTwins.com
(and it works for all children, not just twins!)