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PhotoSitClingingIt’s No Accident. In Less Than A Week, I Can Show You How To Get Time For Yourself.

One of the most difficult stages of raising a young child is from 18 months to 3 years old.  During this time, it can feel like there is a ball and chain connecting you to your child.  It can feel like you are under your child’s control.  Your child seems to be dictating your every move, and actively restricting your movements.

Clingy toddlers translate to exhausted parents.  During this phase, you may experience guilt, frustration, and sometimes anger because you want to break away from your child so you can breathe. Read More→

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Making The Connection

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Mother kissing 4 year old sonThere are many different levels of connecting.  When you call out to your child from another room you are not yet connected, you are just putting out what I will term a location finder signal.  By the second and third times when you don’t get a response, your frustration is rising.  You are in reaction mode.

Why weren’t you getting a response? Possibly your child’s music or television are too loud for you to be heard.  Perhaps your child is on the phone, on the computer, watching a video or totally absorbed in some activity.  The reality is that you are not connected yet. Read More→

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