littles

Expanding Your Child’s Emotional Vocabulary

Emotions are difficult to navigate as a human, but especially as a young child. Imagine having the same range of emotions that we have as an adult, but no vocabulary to properly identify those emotions we are feeling. How frustrating would that be? It might make you want to act or react in a way that seems inappropriate. That’s exactly what we are seeing in our young children when they throw tantrums and have big meltdowns.

Transitions and Challenging Behaviors

Transitions in early childhood can be a difficult time for our littles and can sometimes result in challenging behaviors. Transitions occur any time children move from one activity to another. Moving from playtime to cleanup or dinner time to bath time are just a few examples of transitions in a typical daily schedule but they can also involve activities happening on the move like leaving the library to go to the grocery store. In today’s post I am going to discuss why our littles have such a tough time with transitions and then give a few strategies to help you and them move throughout the day with a bit more ease.