The following tips are recommendations us here at HOP (Harmony Online Preschool) have found to be most effective when it comes to creating emotional balance and regulation at home.
Tip #1 - Prep
Prep a toddler-friendly environment that allows children to explore safely and handle tasks on their own. Also, tell your child prior to transitioning to new tasks to emotionally prepare them.
Tip #2 - Value and Connection
Above toys, screens and other activities, children value time, attention and connection with loving parents more than anything. Your presence matters most! Give them intentional 1:1 time with each parent (if possible).
"Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection." - Gabor Mate
Tip #3 - Embrace
Encourage and allow your child to settle matters, struggle and find solutions on their own to empower them and reduce sibling rivalry.
Tip #4 - Learn and Accept
Learn your child's temperament and accept it instead of trying to change or conform them to an ideal you may have had.
Tip #5 - Gentleness
Anger is a common emotion that comes up in parenting and in children. Parents must find a way to work through their own anger issues and respond with loving kindness to help dissipate anger in your child.
Reflection: Heal Thy Self (Healthy Self)
Healthy parenting requires you to revisit your childhood and learn how your past affects and informs you and your parenting today.