As a mom of a 4 year old and a 2 1/2 year old who wants to help her children create healthy habits for conflict resolution, habits that do not involve pinching, pushing, biting or hitting, I am a person who repeats more times than I can count per day, “Remember to use your words.” Soon, I will take on the challenges of helping them to choose which words, to master volume control and to make eye contact, but for now, we celebrate with enthusiasm those moments when one of them resisted the urge to launch out towards the other and instead expressed themselves with words. Though your children are much farther along in their understanding and use of a variety of communication strategies than mine are, they are still very much learning. It is crucial to keep in mind that they are learning, because sometimes children will understand and communicate perfectly well, and other times their perceptions and understandings will have been impacted by an element of communication, ...
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