Is your toddler learning to talk?
Don’t forget to teach your toddler words about emotions too.
Researchers found that early discussion about emotion may help reduce behavior problems, by giving toddlers the words needed to express themselves. In their article here they provide useful tips on how to make these words meaningful for young minds such as:
“mothers not only labeling the emotion (e.g., sad) but also putting it into context (e.g., She’s sad because she lost her bird) and tying it back to the child’s life (e.g., Remember when you lost your bear and you were sad?).”