Mini-milestones are milestones that last only one day. Occasionally it seems like the birth date can affect the onset of a milestone. Many parents have confirmed much of the timeline below and others say they see the milestones float by about 1-3 weeks. I strongly recommend starting with the due date to line up with at first. It’s not misbehavior: it’s growth! Your understanding and comforting presence in children’s lives helps and makes everything go better. Help spread the word about developmental stages by directing people to this work. Drop me a line if you want, this page useful? Want more to understand these cycles–and stop blaming you as being a bad parent? Know a struggling parent who might benefit by knowing what they are going through is normal? Throw me a bone by recommending this work to friends and family. I hope most of all that you find my work useful to you in your parenting journey. I am very well read on child development. I worked in software as a test and integration engineer for 10 years before becoming a stay-at-home mom who homeschools my 3 children. I have an Industrial Engineering degree from Penn State. This is the idea behind my book about this: Misbehavior is Growth: An Observant Parent’s Guide to Three Year Olds Let’s break down these barriers between us and our children and fully understand them as to use them to everyone’s advantage. It can have a deep impact on parenting and education. You can unleash an enormous potential by understanding the cycles. Ideas like “ignoring” the stages prevent us from understanding them. Go to them with love and comfort.įurther, if you can handle these times with gentleness, guidance, and wisdom–and invest in them as the teaching opportunities that they are– you will see that on the other side is a child who has an outstanding and robust new skill set. Children literally cling to their parents or evoke their attention in other ways. Past advice usually has one punishing or correcting it or, for the more enlightened, ignoring it to “not feed the attention.” I want to show that these cycles are more like a giant sign–a Bat signal in the air–that our children are begging us to come to them at developmentally critical times. The surviving and thriving sections show off what I want to show with this work: that you can use this information to your great advantage for you as a parent and for your child’s development. Above all else in my surviving section, I assume the child is not bad and that we work around the normal age-related behavior. The tools are meant to give food for thought and to be pattern breakers for where you might get sucked into the negativity that the developmental cycles sometimes bring. The surviving section has links to deal with the difficult behaviors and situations–meltdowns, defiance, and such. This is the #1 comment I get about this work: It helps parents stay patient.
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