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Is it considered harmful in the longer run to frighten the child so that he behaves the way we want?
I don't know about the "frightening the child" aspect - personally I think frightening / shocking a child who tries to do something dangerous, like run into the road (eg by shouting loudly) is quite effective.
But I think the thing that all your examples have in common is that the parent is appealing to an external authority (God, ghost, policeman) to be ...
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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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I read somewhere (*) that screen time (including TV, video games, smartphones, tablets ...) should be limited to 1 hour/week/year of the kid (so 3h/week for a 3 years old).
According to several links on the internet, it is considered a bad idea for the kid's helath to start watching TV or before 2.
From my personal experience, we started showing very short ...
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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'm pretty sure one of my sisters-in-law and her husband used something similar around 18 months on their oldest. I don't know the ins and outs of how they used it, and I think it took a few months for it to really "take", but I think he eventually got the point. I have read similar things about a lot of those lights--some of them can be extremely bright. ...
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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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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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I pretty much agree with everyone elses answer (screen at the youngest ages is a waste of valuable awake time) I read the well research "Screen Time" expecting the conventional message and found a balanced conclusion that TV that is age inappropriate is really bad, but TV that is age appropriate is at least not bad.
At the youngest ages, pretty much only ...
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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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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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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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I realize this is highly subjective and only a single anecdote regarding language skills but...
We let both our children watch animated movies from a rather early age while a friend of ours was very strict with limiting their kids' screen time. We regularly gets comments on how well our children are developed verbally while our friends kids can barely be ...
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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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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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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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Ive found a small, cheap, headrest-attached DVD player to work wonders for 2-4 year olds to be a great way for them to pass long car journeys (regularly do 4-5hr drives with mine).
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Lots and lots of snacks, preferably things they can pick out and eat themselves like trail mix type things.
A bag or basket of new (to them) dollar store toys / stocking stuffer type things. Depending on the child you can either give them the whole bag themselves to explore, or produce things one at a time as necessary.
Stickers / sticker books.
Games: ...
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