Teaching body boundaries to toddler

Hey mamas! Wondering how you teach your 2-2.5 year old body boundaries. For themselves and for others. My sons still not super verbal in conversation. He knows many words and talks in jagon alot. (Working on it) My question is about how to explain his body and his choice to him, or is he just too young. He starts preschool in July and I want to try and help him respect others and also learn yo listen to what he likes and verbalize. I was like we can role play but hes a pretty hyper kid and I donno if he would grasp it 🤔 Any tips of what has worked or what you are practicing, thank you!! 🥰

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I found taking my son to the park and staying with him when he interacts with other kids/vice versa when he would get upset about other playing on things I would use simple phrases wait your turn, one second it’s that friends turn, it’s almost your time etc… and when someone would do something he didn’t like before he could talk I taught him to put his hands out in front of him sort of of like a “stop” signal to other kids and walk away and it seemed to do the trick then as he learned to talk we use “no thank you I don’t like that” and those same phrases and motions work for teaching him about his body now that he’s 3 he is VERY verbal about his “ding” and what he does and doesn’t like

We have this book called C is for consent that’s super great because my little enjoys me reading to them. I also normally bring it up whenever I can in scenarios with my boys so if my 3yr old wants to hug his brother and he’s trying to force him to hug him I tell him “we have to ask baby if we can give him a hug” (he calls his brother baby still 😂) and I’ll then explain to him by saying we have to respect his boundaries. Modeling is also something I’m gettin back into so I could see this working here ik it seems silly to us lol but maybe taking a stuff animal and modeling appropriate ways to ask for consistent. Asking the stuffy can I give you a high five? And then having them nod and then high fiving stuff like that

The his body thing talking to him about it just in conversation randomly might work but ik when ny son is hyper he’s not trying to hear nothing I’m saying 😂

I think it’ll definitely best be modeled for him while he’s in school I’m sure he’ll get tons of practice

We say “everyone is in charge of their own bodies” a lot. Mostly in the way of giving someone a hug/kiss and that we should always ask first. We also say “no means no” a lot and make a big deal when he says no to tickling to stop and say ok you said no so I stopped. We always model asking if we can give him a kiss or hug and as he’s got older he’s started asking too.

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