- Start cooking dinner
- Toddler comes up and asks for a hug
- Pick Toddler up and show them what you are doing
- Explain how things are going in the pot
- Give them a tight squeeze and put them down
- Toddler runs off into the lounge to play with toys
- Continue cooking
- Toddler comes in with your floppy summer hat on
- Give Toddler hug and tell them how good they look in Mummy's hat
- Toddler goes back into lounge to play with toys
- Continue cooking
- Toddler comes back in and starts "dancing" (his dancing is mainly spinning around)
- Pick Toddler up and do a little dance with him
- Put Toddler down and ask him to go into the lounge with Trusty Grandpa
- Toddler runs away towards lounge
- Start getting ready to pour boiling water out of pasta pot
- Hear Toddler cry
- Turn round and open arms for a hug with Toddler
- Ask Toddler "What happened? Can you show me?"
- Toddler lets go and walks to corner of the kitchen and stands next to the shelves near the door to the lounge
- Toddler slowly walks up to shelves and in slow motion spins around next to them demonstrating how the knocked their shoulder
- Give Toddler another hug and say "Ouch! That would have hurt, well done for showing me!"
- Kiss Toddlers shoulder and feel very proud of this excellent exchange of communication
- Finish cooking dinner
Monday, October 3, 2016
How To: be told by your Toddler how they hurt themselves
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