Stop Entertaining Your Toddler (In 3 Steps)

There was a wonderful article written by Janet Lansbury about parents constantly feeling as though they have to be the center of their child’s entertainment, constantly leading playtime. As Janet states “For the first three months of my daughter’s life, I’d been entertaining her nonstop, assuming it my duty to occupy and engage her every waking moment with my activity while she remained mostly passive (which is all I thought she could be).” As she discovered, this is far from the truth as infants and toddlers have different ways in which they engage us to play. Even as toddlers, she says that “toddlers are in the process of gaining independence and discovering their power. They are supposed to keep pushing until they find our limits – testing what it takes to make us jump and how high. This is not being “bad” — they’re just doing their job.” Janet does a great job of laying out the pressure parents feel to engage in play with their young children and the 3 steps parents can use to find that happy medium. Please click the link below for the full article. https://www.janetlansbury.com/2013/05/stop-entertaining-your-toddler-in-3-steps-2/