Redirection, replace and distraction. Strategies I remember from when Poss was a toddler. "No, don't poke your fingers in there, look at this shiny thing instead. Here, have the shiny thing!" were frequent phrases in our house. We had a lot of shiny things. As she got older, the endless questions started and the mission to redirect got distracted, so to speak, and it was replaced with a simple 'no' instead. We say that a lot. In fact some days I seem to say it more than every other word. And … [Continue reading...]
