It is important to encourage your child to do more for themselves. It is possible to encourage your toddler to be more
independent of you by doing the following:
- Accept some behaviour
- defiance and disobedience, or refusing to comply with your requests, are essential parts of
your toddler's growth into an individual try to accept some of their behaviour and respect that in some case they can decide
for themselves.
- Try to avoid barking orders and ultimatums
- lead and teach rather than getting into power struggles, a child is much
more likely to react in the wrong way.
- Use distraction
- you may find it impossible to get your toddler to follow orders without upset. It's much smarter
to use diversion tactics or allow them to make choices and offer them some control.
A lot of the time, though, your toddler will just do the opposite of what you want. They may also seem to resent almost
any form of control by you. They will want to get dressed by them self and feed themselves etc. it’s totally normal.
