How to persuade a child to do something tips

• Go to the window, make big eyes and say in a mysterious voice: “Oh, what I see! There, outside the window … “
• Give good news, one that will make your baby happy. “Get up quickly, we will make a magic salad”, “After breakfast – for a walk, build a snow fortress”, “Today we go to the zoo, do you agree?”
• Turn on the baby radio. They chirp very nicely, tell fairy tales, sing songs – and the baby slowly wakes up.
• Children begin to stretch and very quickly get out of a half-asleep state if they massage their heels. Start with simple strokes, then massage the heel with your fist, knead the feet in one direction to the other, slowly pull children’s fingers. Then stroking up to the lower leg. Osteopaths also recommend massaging the ears, but it is not always possible to get to them.

• Shift your toddler’s attention away from dressing to something nice and worth dressing for. “What will we take for a walk to feed the pigeons? That’s right, a roll. And also … “
• Surprise. “The boots went for a walk … Top, top … No, boots, we won’t let you go, come on to your little son – jump!”
• Ask and consult, ask for help. “What will we put on first, a shirt or tights?”, “Help mom put on a hat”, “Can I help you?”.

• Put a chair in the bath and announce: “We play the king of the sea.” Or into a mermaid and a water one, or into divers (for reliability, you can let the child dive into the bathtub right in a T-shirt).
• Do not call to swim, but conduct a “water experiment”. Find out, for example, what the paper will look like in water. Or colored salt. Or you take a colander and throw small toys into the water that you need to catch. It is worth coming up with an activity game that you play only in the bath while swimming and nowhere else.

If the baby stubbornly resists, it may be afraid of something. In this case, it is worth temporarily changing the conditions. For example, instead of a large bath, bathe again in a small one. Change the shower to ladle watering. And, of course, find out and eliminate the cause of childhood fear.

• You turn into a locomotive, a child – a trailer. “Is the trailer hitched? Let’s go, tuuuuu! “
• Set the timing and pace, without letting the child come to his senses: “We collect toys, and who is faster? I will catch up – I will catch up … “
• On the way to the house, you plot a route (so that dad does not get lost!): Draw arrows on the asphalt with chalk.
• Warn about leaving in advance: “You make another cake, and we go home.”
• With some children, the technique works: “I’ll pick you up in five minutes.” They are not guided in time, but they understand that a) they can finish their important affairs; b) you respect their deeds.

Keep in mind: disobedience will become habitual if you say something, set a deadline, and then succumb to the whims of the child.

• Ask you to translate (as if you are afraid or have forgotten how to do it correctly).
• But in general, in such potentially dangerous moments, you should not reduce the whole thing to a game. The child must learn that there are cases when it is imperative to obey the mother. Indicate the seriousness of the moment with your voice. Usually adults start to get nervous, the voice rises, the rate of speech quickens. But the opposite is necessary: ​​change the intonation, speak more slowly and quieter, clearly pronouncing the words. Children very quickly remember when mom says so, it is better not to argue.

• Try letting your toddler take whatever he wants, drawing attention to new and new toys. As a result, you may leave the store with a small, inexpensive trinket, or even nothing at all. Screaming and screaming does not mean that the baby really wants exactly what he asks for. He’s probably just tired.
• And babies also start reaching out to the counters when they want to drink or eat, not always distinguishing between the feeling of hunger and the desire to possess something. Therefore, go to large stores with a well-fed child.

• Make cleaning a game. “Let’s take turns” (mom will take one thing to the place, the other – the baby) or “Who is faster” (“You remove these, and I in-o-he those”).
• Children do better when there is a deadline. Turn on the song and “while it lasts, how long will we have time to remove?”
• Toys such as balls can not be attributed, but thrown into the box, playing “Well, hit it.”
• Perhaps there are too many things and toys, the baby simply cannot understand what to clean, what to leave. Speak specifically: “Take the bear to its place”, “Put the car in the garage.”
• Limit the number of toys. The child plays better when there are few of them. Otherwise, as a rule, it begins to take them apart and throw them.