Testing Boundaries

Something I learnt recently is tell the opposite of what you really want to say. So instead of “no don’t touch that!” or “don’t put that in your mouth!” they suggest to start saying “hands to yourself” for example.

Toddlers tend to only hear the last couple of things in sentences and they’ll start associating what you say as a command to do just that.

We’ve started to see a difference with reducing no and saying what we really want them to do x

I agree. We've had much more success with 'leave it' and 'let go' than 'don't touch'

literally same. We’re starting to not praise her or tell her “good girl” when she does something we want her to do now, as we’ve found she thinks it’s a game to get a reaction out of us 😅

yes! Praise the extraordinary not the expectations and the norms.