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[quote=Anonymous]Can you be more specific? What is she not listening to? Are you asking her to do things and she's refusing? Telling her to stop things and she does them anyway? Trying to get her attention and she ignores you? It could be a lot of things.

Toddlers are still new people. It's common for them to need things repeated lots of time, or to need to be told things different ways in order to get it. I think some of your biggest tools at this age are music and routines. These helped us so much. Instead of asking her to clean up her toys, you say "time to clean up" and play the same clean up song ever day. Same with bath time. I used to turn getting dressed and brushing teeth into the "Getting Ready Choo Choo" and we'd "get on the train" and chugga chugga Choo Choo to the stops. It helped a lot and even as she got older, when she'd drag her feet or ignore me when I told her it was time to get dressed or brush her teeth, I could say "chugga chugga Choo Choo!" and she'd just do it without even protesting.

Other times the issue is that they really don't know what you are talking about. They might understand the words and that you are addressing them, but just lack all of the context around a situation. Even basic concepts sometimes need to be explained, like WHY you have to wash hands after using the potty or WHY they need to be buckled into their carseat before we can go anywhere. Sometimes you just have to take the minute or two to lay it out for them, and then they are good. But you can't assume knowledge or understanding. They do pick up a lot of stuff by osmosis but not everything and sometimes you need to slow it down and bring them into understanding before they can really listen.[/quote]

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