What do you do when your toddler continues to be too rough with the family pet? Even after reminders and coaching and setting boundaries around how to handle the pet? How can you keep your pet safe from those rough toddler hands? These tips can also be applied with younger siblings, especially babies when you are wanting to teach your toddler and set boundaries around appropriate behavior with a younger sibling too.

#168: What to Do When a Toddler is Consistenly Too Rough/Aggressive

It's no secret that toddlers and preschoolers are prone to emotional outbursts! Some struggle more than others. How do coach and teach your toddler and preschooler with BIG emotions and BIG reactions when it just doesn't seem to be working? When it takes them a long time to calm down or when you try to set a boundary and it just amps everything up? Erin gets into some really good details on this one, that she's never done before!

#169: Helping Preschoolers with Big Emotions and Big Reactions

We hear so often about toddlers and big emotions. But what about a toddler who tends to minimize or brush over negative emotions? How do we help them recognize and connect with those emotions too? Then how do we help a child remember good table manners without all the reminding and nagging at mealtimes?!

#170: Helping a Toddler with Emotions & Messy/Poor Table Manners

What do you do when your child's preschool or daycare is reporting inappropriate behavior and asking for you help at home? How much or what can a parent do at home to help preschool day go better? How do you help your toddler/preschooler who seems to be having a new issue with separation anxiety after the birth of a new sibling? Can a parent do anything to ease this transition?

#171: When Daycare Reports Inappropriate Behavior & Separation Anxiety

How do you help a toddler exhibiting an extreme fear and anxiety over situations? Erin answer this first question with tips for supporting a toddler through these fears and anxieties. Next Erin digs into the behavior behind attention-seeking and power-seeking behaviors and how fix these!

#172: Extreme Fears & Mealtime Power Struggle

Of we want our children to be polite so what do we do when they refuse to greet a friend or acquaintance, even with hello or high 5? What is that about? Also how about a toddler who hits his peers out of excitement, just out of the blue? Why does this happen with thoughtful caring parents who give absolutely no exposure to such behaviors? Where does this come from?

#173: Refusal of Greetings & Unexpected Hitting

If we are angry, afraid, stressed, kids feel it, and often have reactions of their own. Already stressed parents become more stressed because now their kids are acting out and the cycle spirals out of control. How do we manage ourselves in stressful times and create a buffer between our emotions and how they affect or kids?

#174: 6 Tips for Being The Buffer for Your Kids During Times of Stress

Erin Royer-Asrilant, LA's go-to expert on all things parenting and child development for today’s common challenges, covers way more than just discipline. She dives into topics such as self-esteem, development and health, modern parenting issues and even education. Erin is not just knowledgeable but also relatable, warm, and sometimes even funny.

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