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In my experience, the most effective time limit at that age is until you're ready. If the discipline is for refusing to pick up his toys, the consequence is time out "until you're ready to pick up your toys." Then you ask in 3-minute intervals if he is ready to do it or not. This ties the consequence directly to the desired behavior, and lets the child ...
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You child proof all at once, but you unproof in stages, depending on the item:
stair gate when they can safely navigate the stairs consistently.
small choking hazards when they stop putting everything into their mouth.
sharp furniture corners probably never in an active play room. In the rest of the house, when they can walk consistently without falling ...
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If your son is otherwise progressing well in his development (that "his play becomes more complicated" and "he wants to explain the rules" is an indication of that), I would not worry (and would certainly not start hectic manouevres to speed up his linguistic development).
If you don't feel qualified to judge his general development, don't hesitate to talk ...
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When an adult doesn't know a word in a foreign language, they will resort to complicated sentences that have lots of subordinate clauses (i.e. that thing I used to eat cereal with). That would be way out of the range of a kid in the 2 word sentence phase. So he's looking for the right pair of words to express himself.
I've read that vocab acquisition is ...
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With my son we did minimal baby proofing in the first place. The extent of what we did:
medicines and cleaning products were kept up in high cabinets (which
they were anyway, but we just took care not to leave them out / in
reach)
we put a stair gate at the top of the stairs
we had a cupboard door lock on the large pantry-style food cupboard in the ...
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Children associate things with sleep, with my daughter it was drinking milk. It took a couple of nights of letting her pitch a fit before she unlearned the association. My daughter is 2 1/2, and it took us 2-3 nights. It might be a little more difficult with a 15-month-old.
The way I see it is that you have a couple of options:
Start transitioning your ...
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Experience from my bilingual family set up (5 year-old child):
First of all, I don't think you should worry.
Second, I don't think you need to look for any pediatrician advice at this point.
Third: the problem may me more related to the parents than to the child. If both parents work full time, and pre-school is in English, the child will have to work ...
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The purpose of a timeout is to deny a child your attention, since this is what he wants most in the world, and to give him time to settle himself if he is overwrought. The 1-2-3 Magic method suggests 3 minutes for a 3-year-old or until the tantrum subsides, whichever is longer. You should not respond to any calling out from the other side of the door.
The ...
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I have 2 kids, one is 6 the other is 3. Both have tried to do what you are describing at various stages.
Setup a night routine. Bath/Book/Songs... whatever you want, just be consistent.
If you want to stay with him for 2-5 minutes as a part of the routine, that's ok.
When the time is up, leave. Yes he will cry, if he's still crying after 10 minutes, ...
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There's nothing wrong with any of what you're doing. There are many women who breastfeed their children until after their 2nd birthday.
My big question is how amenable your 20-month-old is going to be to returning to the breast and breastmilk after taking a 9-month hiatus. If he's been drinking another animal or plant-based milk since his initial ...
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I think 18 months is too young for a training clock. Having just looked through a bunch, most of them say for age 2+, and I think the average 18 month old would not understand the "rules".
Can you bring him in with you when he first wakes, if it's still early? If it's dark and you are lying quietly (asleep or pretending to be) he will get the idea it's ...
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Rule of thumb, 1 min for each year of age. We sit them on the stairs. Then briefly explain and reflect at the end of the period, followed by a hug. We do escalate to removing the very limited pre-teatime TV they sometimes watch. Tickets seems awfully complicated to me.
edit I just saw a previous answer with a reference to our approach. Dare I say it I think ...
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