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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to develop some parenting tactics ASAP. Read all you can in the next 4 weeks about positive discipline and toddler development and limit setting. It sounds like you have an active little guy, so you really need a plan of attack.

How is your house set up? He seems like the type who would do well with a big, safe enclosed space to roam around freely. [/quote]

Are there any books you would recommend? Our house is 3 stories but we mostly spend time on the middle floor which is open concept floor plan, he has pretty much free range to go wherever he likes, I very rarely say "no" to him when it comes to running around the house. he knows how to get off the couch himself so I let him climb on it and we padded the corners of our coffee table so if he wants to climb on that, it's pretty much fine. He knows how to get up and down the stairs by himself too and though we do have baby gates, I sometimes leave our bottom one open if I'm in the kitchen and he knows to stop at the landing. He isn't going around flinging himself off of things haphazardly and he won't really go off on his own to play by himself in the living room, when we are home he tends to hang out with us in the room we are in. [/quote]

Positive Discipline - the First Three Years
Jo Frost Toddler Rules
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen (a little early for this one but you will learn a lot
The Janet Lansbury blog (RIE)
 
Really, read anything about toddlers and discipline you can get your hands on. There is no magic book, it's more about getting ideas and seeing what works.

Since you are going to have so much on your hands, I think you could really benefit from a few sessions with a parenting coach or child psychologist on setting limits. Things are going to get real sticky if you don't have a plan! I don't think anything unusual is going on but the extra support and framework could really help.

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