Parenting Tips for Your 17-18 Month Old Toddler
Children learn best when parents are willing to share simple tasks with them like cooking, cleaning, and other household jobs. When your child tries to help you, remember to look for ways you can make helping fun for both of you. That way, your child will enjoy helping and will want to help more.
Children can learn how to pour milk from a small pitcher by watching you. They can learn how to sweep the floor, pick flowers, and hang up clothes. Toddlers spend up to 20 percent of their time just watching, listening, and staring at you. They’re learning how to copy the things you do.
When you let your little person help you, you are giving him a chance to practice what he has learned. He will make mistakes of course, but don’t yell at him for these. Instead say, “That was a good try. Maybe it would work better if you did it this way.”
Take the time to help him succeed now, and later he will be able to do more things for himself and for you. This is time well spent for both of you.
