Human infants are the mist dependent of all creatures and for the longest amount of time. We would not have survived as a species if cave mothers had out their offspring in another part of the cave at night or left them for long periods of time during the day. WE may have the means to separate ourselves from out young, but biologically, we weren’t meant to and it still upsets the baby and the mother – Alice Bolster –
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tantrums, an attempt to communicate.
A two year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it! -Jerry Seinfeld –
you are TEACHING your children how to behave
Your children will become who you are; so be who you want them to be – anonymous –
Toddlers don’t need ‘Taming”
Toddlers don’t need ‘taming’, or ‘correcting’ – they need our empathy and respect – Robin Grille –
Numerous reasons for “misbehaviour” in toddlers
We all know that there are numerous reasons for “misbehaviour” in toddlers, yet a lot of the time for us as parents it is surprisingly easy to only see the behaviour without regard for what brought it about. – Jan Hunt, ‘the natural child’ –
My Story
I landed into motherhood with a thud. I say landed loosely because it was more of a feeling of falling & falling HARD…
After the traumatic delivery of my first daughter and once home discovering that she would sleep no longer then two hours both day and night, we later found out that she had been misdiagnosed with lactase intolerance and unfortunately had a severe case of esophageal reflux, we had tried everything! Crying it out (as suggested to me by the ‘well meaning’ midwife) leaving her in her cot for timed intervals than responding minutes later, I tried long walks and 3am car trips, only to pull into the driveway an hour later and her eyes would Spring open, wide awake!
Long and heated discussions with well meaning family members, isolation, little contact with friends and family and a husband working two hours away, I was clearly a time bomb of emotions about to go off.