I know you just want to throw everything on the floor and join in the tantrum your toddler is currently testing you with. In a desperate attempt to not just get your attention but, tell you something your little one is yelling at you and pulling at your freshly pressed work outfit. It's 7:15 AM. Even the skies are still sleeping and here you are squatting on the floor a crossed from your child, yet mutually felling worlds apart.
How do you being to understand what your little one is telling you? If not through words or sign language, what? Obviously the whining, yelling and half cry half baby babble is not doing the trick.
These are the questions that played over and over again in my head hours after I left my little girl at daycare. The morning was nothing short of an overwhelming catastrophe in our kitchen and this mama was close to becoming unhinged. The apology and kisses I gave a very misunderstood toddler did nothing to console my feelings of guilt and sadness. How did I get so upset when E innocently put her precious little sticky granola bar covered fingers on my clean black pants?
So, I did some research and found several bits of information that were very helpful. When a deep breathe and calm voice doesn't seem to calm you, much less your crazed monster child, some of these sites will:
The Secret Language of Toddlers.
5 Tips to help your Toddler learn language. Very informative blog.
Good Communication with your baby.
Keep Loving. And have patience.
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