Almost 15-month-old touching other children’s faces/heads – normal phase?
Hi mums, FTM mama here 😊
My little one is 15 months old and has started touching other children's faces and heads when we're out. Sometimes she'll pat their head while saying "gentle" because that's what we've been teaching her at home.
She isn't being aggressive and doesn't seem upset—just very interested in other children. I'm wondering if this is a normal phase at this age? Did anyone else's toddler do this, and did they grow out of it?
Any tips on how you encouraged respecting other children's personal space while they're still so little?
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Just softly grab her hand and remind her that we dont touch people without their permission. "Oh sweetie, hands to yourself"
When my 3 yr old was about 18mths...she would stay at the side of a slide and tell a child to sit but.. LIKE THEY WERE A FUCKING DOG and then they'd sit all confused and she would be like "YES" and they'd look at her like huh? And she'd motion for them to slide down like "come on, yyyyyyes!" and they would and she would be like "good girl!" Or "good boy!"😭 it took MONTHS of correcting to get her to stop talking to people the way we talked to the dogs.
We sing the boundary song at work to the children you can find it on YouTube
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