Good day parents!
This link is a great reminder to all of us, parents and grandparents that toddlers’ brains are still growing along with their capacity to follow instructions. Just because they heard us, doesn’t meant that they have the capacity to stop what they are doing, shift gears, remember the specific instructions and then follow through. Those are executive functioning skills — and they’re housed in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is only 25% developed by age 3 and still under construction into the mid-20s. So when we expect a 4-year-old to “listen the first time,” we’re essentially expecting a flip phone to operate like an iPhone 15.
This article provides some key phrases you can use to help both yourself and your toddler get started!!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/article/1-calming-phrase-kids-listen-090047300.html