A Note from Faith: Rather than giving children 70% of your attention all the time, try alternating periods of “direct attention” (100% of your focus) with being “physically-busy-but-emotionally-available” (20-30% of…
Year: 2019
Your Social Toddler
List of posts in Your Social Toddler Play & ActivitiesApril 1, 2019A Note from Faith: Rather than giving children 70% of your attention all the time, try alternating periods of…
Harmonious Home Life
A Note from Faith: We all long to enjoy our time with our children, and can feel deep guilt when we find ourselves counting down the time till our child…
Discipline & Connecting
A Note from Faith: The research on parenting outcomes is really clear: children do best when the adults in their lives have high levels of warmth, PAIRED WITH high expectations.…
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I’m so glad you found Joyful Toddlers!; please look around. I believe that children—just like the rest of us—long to live a life in which they feel connected, feel competent,…
Joyful Toddlers and Preschoolers
Create a Life that You and Your Child Both Love…
A Playful Way to Teach Kids to Control their Anger
A friend recently sent me a link to THIS STORY by NPR about a researcher in the 1970s who noticed that the Inuit community where she was staying had very…