At Apple Hill Academy, we lovingly refer to the tremendous developmental leaps that a child’s personality and intelligence undergo between the first and second year of life as “The Terrific Twos;” while many parents and less-experienced child care centers, however, know it by a different name altogether.
Parents can make great strides towards coping with the puzzling behavior in their toddler’s “new” personality, by purposely making a paradigm shift in their own thinking. As your child is discovering the confusing (albeit fascinating) world around them, you can begin “putting the pieces together” in your own way of thinking by changing the narrative. It is no longer “terrible” that the child wishes to control their destiny; in fact, it is terrific!
It is no longer “terrible” that the toddler is trying to be self-sufficient, because after all, it is terrific that someday they will be independent adults who grew through the loving care of their terrific (not terrible) parents!
A toddler doesn’t have control over their own thoughts, emotions, and actions because their world is often puzzling to them. It will take years for a young preschooler to understand their world and adjust their thinking. Thankfully, their parents can learn to make a paradigm shift in a matter of days so that the pieces will fall into place for the whole family.
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