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How To Teach Your Kids To Stop Interrupting You So Much -Explain to your toddler how interrupting is rude and impolite. -Stress how interrupting is only accepted in emergencies, like when they have to go potty. -Stay calm when your kid interrupts. It's important to model proper behavior so they know what to mimic. -Tell your kid to squeeze your arm if they want your attention instead of interrupting your conversation.

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How To Deal With Toddler Favoritism -Don’t become jealous if your toddler prefers your partner. -Never take your child’s parent preference as a personal attack. Resentment can build and spill over to the child. -Explain to your partner how you feel when being rejected by the child. -Plan for the favored parent to take some time away so the unfavored parent can bond with the child one-on-one. -Never push back on toddler snubs. Instead reaffirm your love for the child.

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How To Raise A Kid To Think Beyond The Present And Build The Future -Encourage your child to express their inner creativity and imagination. Help them build, draw, and work on their wacky ideas. -Ask them what they’re working on while they’re building something. Kids who communicate their ideas become more proficient and better experts in a subject area.

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Yes, It's Totally Possible To Gaslight A Kid -Avoid manipulating or being dismissive of your child’s perspective, as they don’t have a strong grip on reality yet. Nurture their world instead. -Don’t attempt to make your child think in a specific way. This cold lead to patterns of misrepresentation and mistruth.

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What Am I Doing to My Kid When I Yell? -Don't yell, at least as much as possible. Research finds that constant yelling at an early age can lead to prolonged shouting matches when your kid becomes a teenager. -Focus on engaging in a calm dialogue. Yelling shuts down all forms of communication between you and the child, and often prevents lessons from being be learned through discipline. ".

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How to Expose Your Kid to Art Without Freaking Them Out -Explain to your kids before arriving that they may see a lot of nudity -- especially penises. There’s just no other way around it. -Avoid video art, as it tends to be (is almost always) 100% disturbing.

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