Comments on: The Best Way to Encourage Toddler Manners

By: R

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:24:15 +0000

Hi, how should this approach be the same or different for a child on the autism spectrum who is verbal, age 2.5? Thank you

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:48:38 +0000

Thank you.. what if your child is five or six and also doesn’t say hi to you.. I’m supposing the same applies…

By: Kanga

Kanga — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:27:54 +0000

I’ve always intuitively felt this way and tried to not force my children to meet the expectations of adults …and I have a great example from just this evening! My mother in law was trying to force a greeting out of my almost 5 year old. My mother in law looked to me and said in earshot of my daughter “why isn’t she talking?” I said confidently in reply “she’ll talk when she’s ready” which elicited a knowing and appreciative glance and subtle smile from my daughter. She knew I had her back and that’s all that mattered in that moment.

By: Karla

Karla — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 07:47:20 +0000

This is my nearly 5yr son! I try to role model how we talk to people and stand with him at new places or when we see new people as I know he’s a little on the shy side but I’d like to know how to support him when he’s at kindy? He’s been at his current place for over a year (give or take a few lockdowns), he barely talks to his teachers, he doesn’t have many friends there, after a break away from kindy we go through the whole breakdown of him crying and not wanting to be there. He came home the other day and said nobody wanted to play with him. I said that must have made him feel sad, then I asked if he tried to play with them and he said no. I explained that if they were doing something he wanted to join in on then he could go to them or ask a teacher to help him. I’m at a loss as to how to help him navigate through this, especially as I’m not there with him and he’s going to school in the new year??!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 00:36:59 +0000

Sometimes my toddler doesn’t want to say goodbye, and I can tell it’s because she’s sad to go. In those moments I say “it’s hard to say goodbye sometimes isn’t it. We can see ‘see you later’ instead, because we’ll see them again soon.” Then I say on her behalf to the person “See you later!” Sometimes she joins in and says ‘see you later’ after a bit of a processing pause. She also doesn’t always say hello to people – I agree it’s pretty intimidating for a kid – but that doesn’t bother me. I just say “Hi” on her behalf.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 04:41:56 +0000

Love this article! I feel like it applies to so many things, even toddlers learning to feed themselves.