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Taming Toddler Tantrums: Tips that Really Work

Young parents get scared when they hear stories about the “terrible twos.” Take courage, though, you will survive the toddler stage.  It’s not easy to understand why your toddler has a tantrum but at such a young age, a child is consumed with thoughts of themselves.  Everything is about them and how they feel.  Until they are taught how to share, every toy or piece of food they see automatically belongs to them.

Toddler temper tantrums can have a variety of effects.  Your first thought might be that everyone is focused on you and your screaming child, but getting embarrassed won’t diffuse the situation.  Besides, as a parent, you have many more years of embarrassing situations to look forward to courtesy of your children.  So worrying about what others think during this situation is simply going to stress you and make you feel worse.

Here are a few tips to help you cope during tantrums:

1. Ignore the tantrum.  This technique works best when at home.  In public places, you don’t want to ever leave your child unattended as a form of punishment.  Good behavior in public begins at home.  Ignoring a toddler is not harsh.  If your child is squirming on the floor screaming for a cookie, continue to talk to them as if you never noticed.  Eventually, they will get the hint and stop screaming.

2. Avoid instant gratification.  In public, toddlers throw tantrums when they are denied something that they want.  Some parents give in to keep their child quiet but a child learns quickly.  Tantrums will continue if they know you will cave.  Simply tell them “no” and keep moving.

3. Don’t get angry.  When you scream and they scream the situation is wildly out of control.  You’ll end up crying and your toddler will still be screaming.  In any situation, raised voices mean civilized conversation has ended in favor of basic primal instincts.  Don’t revert back to the days of early man.  Keep using the same calm voice you use when they are behaving to get your child to calm down as well.

4. Praise your toddler when they behave well.  Positive reinforcement is better than negative.  In the absence of positive attention a child will behave badly just to get some attention at all.  Acting out and throwing tantrums may be a cry for attention.  Don’t let it get to this point.  Clap and celebrate when they go to the potty successfully and when they put away their toys.  Good manners such as saying “please” and “thank you” deserve a smile and a hand clap as well.

5. Run errands after nap time.  Kids get punchy when they get tired.  A toddler misbehaves more often if they are dragged around when they are tired.

6. Carry snacks with you.  Low blood sugar can lead to tantrums.  If you are out longer than anticipated and lunch or dinner time is close at hand, let them eat a healthy snack to keep their hunger pains at bay and sugar levels stable.

You will survive the toddler years.  Nip temper tantrums in the bud with the above tips.

Need a new wooden learning toy for your toddler? Explore our puzzle playsets; unique toddler toys for fun and learning. Brightly colored individual pieces for play and then fit them together to form a floor puzzle.  Gotta see all three sets today!

Parents of young children will have as much fun as their child when playing with Little Reader Blocks. If you have not been introduced to them you are in for a special treat.

Manufactured by Smart Monkey Toys these block toys will help parents and educators teach toddlers their 100 basic sight words.  There are so many different games you can play with these blocks we could publish a small report.

Included in one set are 18 color coded sight word blocks are:

3 green noun blocks (18 nouns)
5 blue verb blocks (30 verbs)
5 red pronoun blocks (30 pronouns)
3 yellow adjective blocks (18 adjectives)
2 white preposition blocks (12 prepositions)

Each cube block is 3” square and is perfect for rolling like dice, stacking, and playing games such as making sentences.

You will quickly learn how versatile the Little Reader educational toddler toys are when you play such games as having your child pick out all the words with “a” and have them stack all these blocks as high as they can until they tumble down. Then you can have your child count the number of “a’s” he found (or the number of sight word blocks he has with an “a”). Or, have your toddler select one toy block and ask him what the word sound would be if he took the first letter of that word away. Some words will be real words, others not.

Pull out a block from each of the categories and have your child roll each one; then have him make a sentence with the words that are on top of each block.  When your children are printing they could take a piece of paper and copy their sentence.

Getting a head start with 100 basic sight words will greatly benefit toddlers when they begin to read books at home and at preschool.  Learning to read is an exciting part of all toddlers’ education.

Begin using these fun blocks as early as two and you can begin to teach colors alone.  And since kids love to stack blocks these blocks are just the right size for their little hands to build towers and other structures or just to carry around and put in a wagon or a box.

Little Reader Blocks are available at All I Can Imagine and are now on Sale!

Many of you are familiar with the line of ImagiPLAY wooden kids toys located (until last December), in Colorado.  Barbara Aims, the owner, has sold her toy company to BeginAgain Toys.

All of ImagiPLAY’s wooden toys including her 3d wooden puzzles, playsets, baby rattles and clutching toys, puzzle playsets, etc. have been moved to BeginAgain’s warehouse in Illinois where they will continue selling these toys until the last shipment, which they recently received, is depleted.

That’s right, when they are gone they are gone – as you know them.  The brightly colored 3d wooden puzzles will be redesigned in that they will no longer have bright colors.  BeginAgain plans on going to a more natural look so if you like the pretty bright colors of ImagiPLAY’s wood toys they need to be ordered soon.

BeginAgain is an established toy company and has a line of toddler toys that fits in with the line of ImagiPLAY toys that we have for sale on our website.  In a few months we may begin adding some of their own line to our website.  We especially look forward to selling their line of baby toys and we will keep you up to date as to when we add them and any other products to our website, All I Can Imagine.

Remember to visit our website Blocks and 3d Puzzles.com to order your 3d  painted puzzles before they are gone!