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Put Annoying Behavior “On Hold” … with
Patience-Stretching
I love persistent kids. But, if your tenacious tyke runs over your rules
like a steamroller, try this little twist on patience-stretching to put
her annoying behavior on hold:
First, practice patience-stretching (
this page
) several times to
teach your toddler that when you hold up a finger and say, “Wait!
Wait!” she has to be patient.
Now you are ready to use this great technique to discourage her
pestering. For example, your child is nagging you to let her play
with her ball, but you don’t want her to play with it inside the
house:
1. Connect with respect: Use the FFR +Toddler-ese to
acknowledge her feelings.
“You want! You want the ball! You say, ‘Mine!

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“You want! You want the ball! You say, ‘Mine!
Mine!! Give it to me!’ You really, really want it!”
2. Next, almost give her what she wants … but then stop and turn
away: Reach for the ball, but then suddenly act like you need to
do something important. Then ignore her for five seconds as you
pretend to do something else.
“Sure, honey. I’ll get it. But, uh-oh! Wait! Wait! One
second, one second!”
3. Now, turn back and again begin to get the ball, but suddenly stop
and tell her you remembered you “can’t” give it to her … but
you can offer a good compromise. It sounds like this:
“Good waiting, sweetheart, here’s the ball.” Then,
suddenly look surprised and exclaim, “But … wait!
Wait! I almost forgot, no balls in the house … noooo
balls. I’m so sorry, honey, but you know the rule. We
can play with the ball outside or we can play with