imagery – Joyful Toddlers!

Hoarding Toys

Dear Miss Faith, I have a 3yo boy in my play program who is a toy hoarder. All of his play seems to consist of dumping out toys into a…

Neediness

Dear Miss Faith, My daughter just turned three and mostly things are fine, but her neediness is draining on me. It feels a bit like there’s a hole in her…

Holiday Celebrations with Toddlers

One of the things that many of us love most about holidays are the rituals: doing things the same way each year. I like to define rituals as “connecting activities…

Mama Takes a Trip

Dear Miss Faith, My daughter is 23 months old and I’ll be leaving her for the first time on Friday. I’ll be gone for 4 days. I haven’t told her…

Help with Power Struggles

Hi Miss Faith, My son is 2 and I feel like we are in a constant power struggle. I know it’s somewhat normal but I hate this, and feel bad…

Engaging Cooperation

Dear Miss Faith, I’ve been caring for several 2-year-olds, and we’ve recently had a new 4-year-old boy join us. This 4yo is generally uncooperative, and the littler kids are starting…

Running Away

Dear Miss Faith–My 2 year old is running away from me for everything, and it’s causing some problems. Put on socks, shoes, brush teeth, go to school, change diaper, go…

Being Firm without Being Mean

I’ve talked before about how it benefits children when we have clear expectations and firm boundaries, and how it is reassuring to children to know that we are in charge.…

Refusing to Speak

Hi Faith, My friend just turned me onto your blog and the timing couldn’t be better! I have a 16 month old daughter that has stopped talking! She will grunt…

Imaginative Journeys for Mundane Tasks

Redbird tells each child to put his cloth in the bowl Dear Miss Faith, I’ve never before had children that regularly made a fuss but at the moment I…

Luring Kids into Helping

This is a response that I wrote to a mom in my teleclass who was inspired to fold laundry with her four-year-old daughter, only to discover that her daughter wasn’t…