28/05/2024
👦🏼🧒🏽T o d d l e r s 👧🏾👦
We can't expect toddlers to sit through an entire carpet time while being still, without them getting up, standing up, or touching someone else.
Without wandering off, making noises, stroking your leg, climbing on you or their friend.
Without them wanting to see what's out the window, standing on their head, exploring their navel, or generally moving about!
It's no good feeling frustrated that the 'planned activity' you had scheduled didn’t go to plan.
Toddlers don’t follow a plan; they are not wired to remain still or seated for long periods of time.
We need to stop placing expectations onto toddlers in a vague hope they’ll all magically conform, comply, or do as they are told! It just isn’t going to happen.
Why would we want them to anyway?
It’s us adults who need to make change, to transform our understanding of how toddlers engage, explore, and investigate this world.
To view it through the perspective of a vibrant, lively, curious TERRIFIC toddler.
If a child wants to listen to a story while standing on their head, who are we to say that that’s not a great way to listen or hear?
Maybe seeing the book upside down is the best way to view the pictures? 🙌🏼😂
Do you want to be ready and prepared for being with toddlers?
From Monday, we will be sharing PDF downloads, magazines, play invitations, and much more to help you understand toddlers.
Our app is having a revamp to help you find things more easily, and we will have a brand new section specifically for toddlers brimming with content to help you in your role.
(Did you see last month which was all about school readiness? ).
