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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
lately my daughter (3.5 yo) has gotten into the habit of being the leader of games. and when there is something that goes different than what she has in her mind, she feels angry. sometimes translating that into punches or bites if she decided that a piece of paper is a menu of the restaurant and one of her friends says it is an airplane: boom. conflict. we just had one of those and had to go away from the house of her friend because of the conflict and it’s hard to deal with it. any stories you have around this? what works? what doesn’t? it’s so wild to reject a behavior of your own kid, and feel and see that she is developing her own character and personality. the good and the bad. how to hold space for that?
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Drew Volpe
@drew
one tactic I used a lot at that age is distraction. kids brains get fixated on things and they have hard time letting go. if you come at them with something completely off the wall, it moves their attention to that. "Cora. did I show you that our car has a duck for an engine?" and then walk her to the car, open the frunk, and show the stuffed duck I keep there. let her bring the duck into the restaurant and by the time we're back, she's not worried about airplane menus. telling a silly joke or something ridiculous works well too.
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@jpfraneto.eth
it’s wild how this one works. we use it a lot also. something that i remembered from yesterday reading your comment is that i actually saw it coming (her aggression to her friend). there was this ~3 second gap where I knew there was a punch coming and i regret not taking her away before she could hit her acting in that 3 second gap and distract her with something new would have been epic
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