🥚Toddler Eggshells 🥚
Chances are you have opened this post up and thought, ‘What on earth is this about?’ 😅
Well if you have a toddler who is anything like mine, chances are you find yourself treading on eggshells all day! Chose the wrong banana from the bowl? Meltdown. Chose the right banana but peeled it the wrong way? Meltdown. Right banana, peeled it the right way but then they see a black bit? Game over.
Chances are the same thing happens at bedtime. One small thing leads to another and you end up with a crying, overtired toddler who is very difficult to calm and get to sleep.
What can you do about it?
– Preparation – have everything you need for bedtime prepared in advance and have your little one help you. Let them help you lay their pyjamas out where they want to put them on
– Get the wind-down activity ready in advance as a form of distraction
– Give them choices (more about this on the next ‘tip’ post)
– Stay calm. Don’t match their level of upset.
Solidarity to all the parents just trying to do their best whilst going through the terrible twos and with the threenagers. I see you, I am one of you😅❤️
