I walked into a room, witnessed it, and thought to myself – Aaah! My old enemy. We meet again.
I knew the journey wasn’t going to be easy. The signs were already there.
Flailing arms. Stubbornness. Tantrums. Screams. Tears.
If you’re parenting a toddler you know exactly what I am talking about and you are, in all likelihood trying to figure out how to discipline your little one effectively. (Read this blog post till the very end to learn some foolproof ways to do exactly that!)
I get it. Parenting can sometimes be arduous, crippling, and exhausting. I am currently a mom to two little kids – a two-year-old and a two-month-old and am still figuring it out.
My feisty toddler is quite the handful and I have realized that disciplining a young child is no easy feat.
I hear her scream the word “no” at least 500 times a day and it sometimes feels like I’m on the verge of yelling my guts out at her. But, having a strong-willed child only means that they are developmentally on track (Thank God!). Toddlers start developing their own identities and what we term as disobedience or rebellion can be chalked down to their need to control things around them and their inability to communicate feelings effectively.
But, what bothers me is that the whole world around us believes that ONLY obedient children are good children and that the act of parenting is merely an ongoing process of correcting a child’s behavior.
