Welcome to the all new Toddler Talk!
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Family and Life in Las Vegas – Emily and Squishy (2.5)
Crazy About My Baybah – Lolo and Baybah (2.5)
The Life of a Sippy Cup Mom - Melissa & Hayden(4)
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Toddler Talk was created as a place for moms and dads of toddlers to come together over a weekly topic and share ideas, go-to toys, or products. It is a great way to meet other bloggers of toddlers. Each week the topic will be different; we invite you to link up, share your weekly Toddler Talk!!
There are no rules.
Link up a post that is related to this weeks topic.
(If you have previously written one, feel free to link that up.)
Link ups will be open ALL WEEK!
(If you have previously written one, feel free to link that up.)
Link ups will be open ALL WEEK!
Please – Before you Link up – This is NOT A BLOG HOP!! IT IS A MEME FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF TODDLERS. If you aren’t going to post specific to this weeks topic, then don’t link up.
This Week’s Topic: FREE
This week’s topic is FREE, which means you can write about whatever you want related to your toddler and link up! We will do at least one free topic per month!
This week I would like to ask how other Toddler parents deal with:
“MINE!”
“I WANT IT!”
As my toddler is growing and getting more independent he is also a lot more demanding.
Everywhere we go he declares, I WANT IT!
And if he doesn’t get what ever that may be, he goes into a fit. Most of the time they are manageable, but more and more often lately they are getting LESS manageable.
I know we talked about how to handle toddler tantrums, but would like to hear how you deal with the constant I WANT IT’s and MINEs while you are out and about.
Next Week’s Topic: TODDLER’S FAVORITE SONGS
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This link up is for families that have toddlers. Raising a toddler can be fun, crazy, exciting, and exhausting. Sharing what works for you could give other families another way to do things.
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What a fun feature to offer for parents. My son is 4 but sometimes he still does this. I am trying to make my blog more family friendly and so I would Love to share this with my readers if that is OK with you. I am with Mommies Point of View and I also would like to interview you all or offer you a guest spot on my blog.
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Emily Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Glenda! Yes, 4 is a great age to still link up with us. Each week on Thursday we post Toddler Talk. Feel free to browse past topics. You can link up any time during the week, and there is a link for you to grab the code if you want to share with your readers. If you grab text to share (which is encouraged) we just ask you link back!
You can email me at familyandlifeinlv(at)gmail.com about a guest post if you would like! 
Looking forward to having you join in!
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ah yes, the “mine” and “I want it or I’ll throw the biggest fit you ever saw” stage. The first thing I try to do when my kids act this is way, is make sure there is a reason I said “no”, and that it’s a good reason. If there is no good reason to say “no” I try to say yes as often as I can. BUT I also expect my kids to ask politely. If they can’t ask politely that is grounds for saying no as well. My 5yo completely understands when I tell her we can’t afford something, or she doesn’t get a treat because she was misbehaving. Kids understand a lot more than we sometimes give them credit for.
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Emily Reply:
February 16th, 2012 at 8:14 am
We have been working on “May I have it please.” Which he is pretty good at when I remind him that we don’t say “I want it”. But he isn’t very good at hearing no. Even if it has a good reason behind it on my part. Good to hear it gets a bit better with age!
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When my girls went through this, really Caelyn still is in it, we first tell her she needs to ask for the item politely. If she takes something from Chloe (or vise versa) we imediately take the toy back then we talk about it. It is like a detective state because it always ends up that one took it from the other but they had it first. So we figure out what was going on and if that doesn’t work, then we just remove the toy to resolve the issue.
As far as it being something they want, that is hard. Caelyn is just starting to understand you need money to buy things so we tell her if she really wants it she needs to save her money. Chloe does understand this well so we have bank for each of them. Now they maybe for a week only put money in the jar then the toy they wanted is forgotten about. But yes it gets better.
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Nanny P here! Gotta love ‘em toddler years… The terrible twos. For me, I always make toddlers share. I know it’s easier said than done and How the Heck do you Do that anyways?! Well, if they WONT share, then:
1) Take the toy away.
2) Expect a melt down.
3) Place toddler in a safe place so he/she can continue with melt down.
4) Walk away.
5) IF child continues meltdown or proceeds to hurting them selves or others, intervene immediately.
Get down to child’s level and try explaining that the toy must be share or will be taken away.
Set a timer via egg or phone timer. Something that has a distinct buzzer so the child knows when toy must be passed.
6) If all else fails either
A) bribe… (sorry, I use this one a bit) or
B) distract toddler with new toy, preferably bubbles…
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cute picture! He looks bad to the bone!
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Emily Reply:
February 20th, 2012 at 11:25 am
LOL He is such a sweet boy, that picture makes me laugh every time!
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