Welcome to our toddler page here you will find a plethora of insightful and helpful articles to help you with your parenting needs:
Time Outs
Do you use Time Out when your child is repeatedly being challenging? I know it’s a popular method and it’s certainly better than smacking (which is probably what your parents did to you), but is it ultimately helpful & could there be a better strategy to use instead? That’s the topic of this video where…
How to Stop Your Child Name Calling
Name Calling – it’s frustrating, it’s rude, it’s embarrassing & it’s infuriating! When our kids latch onto a rude or inappropriate word, it’s sooooooo hard to get them to stop. Rational explanations don’t work. Shouting makes it worse. And ignoring it doesn’t make the words go away. So what else can you do? It will…
Why Our Kids Become Aggressive
My beautiful little boy has become aggressive & annoying. He’s roaring like a lion at everyone, hitting out at his friends and threw a train at another child’s head at playgroup this week. Marvellous…… How are yours? Are any of them acting up & lashing out? It’s bloody irritating isn’t it?! SIGN UP TODAY FOR…
Bedtime Soothing Techniques – Are They Helpful?
Do you find yourself endlessly stroking, singing or patting your child to sleep? Or hunting for the best soothing music? Or creating very specific routines which turns into a disaster at the slightest deviation? If bedtime has become this drawn-out, ever-so-stressful-but-I’m-trying-to-radiate-calm-energy-so-you-will-go-to-sleep-before-I-scream experience(!), then it’s helpful to look at whether these soothing tactics & routines are…
Does your child hate you saying No?
Do you ever despair at your child’s over-the-top reaction when you dare to say no to them? Even when you’re being perfectly reasonable in your request? If so, this week’s video can help! A mum recently posted in our Really Useful Parenting Facebook Club about the struggle she is having with her 3 year old…
Old & New Parenting Paradigms & Why We Find Parenting Hard
Do you ever wonder why being a parent can be so hard? Or why you’ve got no idea what to do, or why you completely lose it and end up sounding just like your mum?!
One of the reasons why is that we’re often doing things differently to how we were parented. So here’s a simplified review of different parenting paradigms throughout the past century.
Strive to Thrive with a ‘Pack-a-Punch’ Lunch
by Amanda Kane & Tanya Fleming from Pinkfarm When packing our children’s lunch boxes we prioritise quality over quantity. The modest quantity of lunch given to our children is intensified by the nutrient dense, quality food choices we provide them with. What is nutrient density? Nutrient dense foods are unrefined, unprocessed and made from whole…
Why A Tantrum Is Not Always What It Seems
Sometimes our children have the biggest cries over the smallest of things. We can be completely baffled why they are so upset over something so minor as the wrong colour plate, the wrong t-shirt or event a biscuit being slightly broken. It can lead to us becoming infuriated, bewildered or upset ourselves. Sometimes we can…
Being With Your Angry Child
Anger is such a strong emotion that it can be very confronting to see it in our child, particularly when they are so young. The display of anger can sometimes be such a massive, out of control response that we frequently don’t know what to do. Parenting is no longer this lovely, wonderful experience. It’s…
Why Your Child Can’t Think Straight During A Tantrum
Have you ever tried to reason with your child when they are having a tantrum? Or have you ever wondered why on earth they are making such a massive fuss over something seemingly so unimportant? The reason is not that your child is wilfully ignoring you, or manipulating you or making a fuss over nothing….
