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5 Ways To Make Toddlers Listen To Parents

Parents who are generally busy with work become impatient in dealing with toddlers who do not listen and find an easy way out of spanking the child. Toddlers who do not listen should be carefully analysed and as a parent, you should find out the reason for this type of behaviour. Instead of choosing the hard way of using the stick, you can try other methods. Today, Boldsky shares with you ways to make toddlers listen to parents.

According to experts, the reason why toddlers do not listen is because they want to be the centre of attention. Therefore, to deal with this kind of a situation, here are five ways to make your toddlers listen to you, take a look:

5 Ways To Make Toddlers Listen To Parents

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Address The Little One
If you find your toddler is not listening to you, stand up, be strict and address the little one. Talking to your toddler on the importance of listening in simple ways will get them to stop being so stubborn and be more respectful. This is one of the best ways to get toddlers to listen to parents.

Give Him/Her Choices
The best way to make toddlers listen to parents is to provide them with choices. Make sure you give them mouthwatering choices in order for them to listen to you.

Be Affirmative
You can be affirmative by not just raising your voice, but also in the things you do which your toddler is able to understand. Make sure that your little one knows who is in charge and who is elder in the house.

Make Listening Fun
Since he/she is still small, you need to inculcate some of the fun ways to make listening fun for them. One of the best ways to make your toddler listen to you is to play a listening game so that he/ she gets to know the importance of it.

Avoid The Echo
By calling your child's name over and over again and wanting him/her to listen to you is not going to help. The best way to make toddlers listen to you is to ignore them when they are talking and this will make them understand what you have been trying to put across.

Story first published: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 17:47 [IST]
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