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what do toddlers need?Submitted by huck on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 6:06pm.
some routine, some greenery (or at least fresh air), some love and a shit-load of patience. buttloads of patience necessary! i've been trying so hard to stay calm with monkeygirl but she's starting to have tantrums about EVERYTHING and it's a wee bit frustrating....for both of us! food which if you know Ike, amounts to deathly ill. I think he will be okay. He spread the wealth and yakked in daddy's armpit before Tom could fully wake up. Mwahahahaha! lots of supervision even more hugs room to dance I am swisterland...switzerland? fuck it, I am swiss. He needs - A baby doll An extra story Some veggie booty A cuddle in the big bed And lots and lots of fire engines. I haven't seen your name here for a while. The heart has its reasons whereof Reason knows nothing. and I'm unrepentant - the worst kind of lurker. But as I watch the toddler time of so soon coming to a close I can't help but comment. You know, no one in Berkeley thinks a boy with a baby doll is remarkable but you should see the heads turn in Pittsburg, PA. and Winnie the Pooh on DVD....lol.
We are house bound since it is over 110 every day now and we are going CRAZY! It is even too hot to go places and get in and out of the car. "If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?" I guess it's like how winter's are here . . . only at least you can bundle them up in the winter. So maybe what your toddler needs is a personal-portable-sprinkler system (a PPSS) to play outside with. You could make a fortune selling that kind of thing, all you need to do is convince southern mamas that the PPSS is actually important toddler safety gear and if they don't immediately add it to their baby shower registry they are an irresponsible future mother unworthy of joining the rest of the play group at the pool. Sorry, I'm rambling . . . *a loving and supportive environment lately i have been feeling like a slacker mom. i am working 4-5 nights a week, staying up till 2am most nights. our mornings at home are lazy. there is nothing forcing us to motivate. nothing forcing us to get dressed even (my girls are so often naked.) when i do pull us all together, i have to stop many times throughout the day to breastfeed the 3 month old. i wonder if i am giving the big girls enough, but i know they are happy and healthy. they are self directed and play together all day long, so i think they are fine. supermom might be teaching them more about the alphabet or counting, but supermom i am not. |
They need
some space, maybe something to burrow in too, like a play tent or a corner you partially block off with a bookshelf or something.
A purse, or a bucket or a lunchbox or backpack. Something to pack their treasures in and carry.
unlimited food
unlimited love
books
rainboots. Even if you live in the desert.
Consistency.
Discipline - meaning "to teach".
Space - to be who they are, to work through their emotions, to assert themselves in a safe way.