Toddlers are so pure. She doesnโt understand that we help her with certain things because sheโs little. She thinks that everyone just helps each other like that. So she tries to blow on my food and cut it up for me and tries to help me put on my shoes.
i was giving little wagon rides to a baby around the backyard one day and all of a sudden she hops off and slaps the seat of the wagon telling me to get on because it was my turn and i was like no itโs ok im too heavy and she was like NO ITS UR TURN and kept tugging on my hand so i would sit down. eventually i got on and it was just a little 2 year old trying so hard to push me around on a wagon not understanding why it wouldnโt budge but still so determined to let me have my turn lol
I donโt think Iโd realised how many casual compliments we pay to our toddler until she started casually complimenting us back, because experience has taught her thatโs How Social Interaction Is Done, and thereโs nothing quite like a very earnest three-year-old solemnly and sincerely informing you that you look wonderful and smell nice to make you feel really good about yourself
I tell her sheโs my best girl. She tells me Iโm her best auntie. Then we both feel good about the world!
Teach them kindness.
my little cousin is 3 and she stands there and goesย โyouโre doing it!โ whenever iโm like, making food for us, or doing the laundry, or pushing her in a stroller up a hill. she is the most encouraging sweetheart.ย
โWhat is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.โ - Rabbi Tzvi Freeman
AND THE CHILD IS RIGHT.
