From assembling simple puzzles, running around the yard, climbing and skipping in the playground to even jumping on the bed, it is much joy and happiness for parents watching their preschoolers demonstrating a wide range of pre-learned skills and trying to apply those skills to the world around them.
From time to time, parents need to know what physical skills their kids are developing at age 2, 3 or 4. They can practice these skills with their kids throughout the day. As tempting as leaving your child playing and trying to develop these skills all by herself, it is utmost necessity to help guide and facilitate limits that will make them safer.
Parents often set limits for their children not for disciplinary reasons alone but basically to keep them safe. So it is very imperative for parents to know how to set limits, how to implement the limits once they are set and what consequences to utilize once these limits are ignored. Below here are tips needed for development and limit settings.
- Show love and empathy: children who feel they are loved and valued tend to be more willing to accept corrections and limits.
- Be firm: be ready to tell your child “No” quite often during the process. Try to explain why they can’t do something.
- Involve your child: it is essential to involve your kids in setting the limits. Ask of their candid opinion while setting those limits.
- Be consistent: when you set a limit, no matter what the limit is, it is important to be consistent when reinforcing it. By being consistent, your child can trust you to do what you say.
- Avoid setting many limits at once: your preschooler’s needs to be able to achieve success with following one limit before moving to the next one. Try not to set more than three limits at once to avoid confusion and irregularities.
- Be observant: pay attention to how the limits you set is affecting your preschoolers.
- Don’t give up: you may encounter challenges- as young children have the habits to want what they want when they want it. Exercise patience and do not give up.