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[quote=Anonymous]For a toddler? Picking your battles. It is exhausting and pointless to fight every fight with a toddler that doesn't have a mature enough brain for rationality, impulse control, etc. If they insist on the same rain boots every day, who cares? If they just won't listen when you tell them to stop locking the baby gate, then get a different gate. But manners, empathy, sharing, and "good human" behaviors are hills worth dying on. Not that your kid won't smack their sibling or refuse to share their snack (that was supposed to be for everyone), but make sure they KNOW they are expected to act like good people and don't make excuses and ignore bad behavior because they're "too young." And model apologizing for mistakes. If you fess up to your mistakes, you're a lot more likely to have an honest big kid that doesn't try to sneak and lie.

And parent the kid you have. Some learn lessons relatively easily, some toddlers are just chaos and need time to mature. You didn't fail if you happened to get the latter kind of kid. [/quote]

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