Let's talk about toddlers!

Having a toddler around you is a great work with lots of responsibilities. Because of their nature, the level of their brain development and how they see things, you don't need to take away your attention from them once they are under your care.

We all know how toddlers behave most especially when they are happy, relaxed, eaten and are well fed, immediately they have their sleep and wake up, the next moment you will have with them will not be funny at all. Is either they make you smile and happy, or they make you to shout all through the moment they are with you, or they convert you to be their security guard or Watchman because of the way they will be crawling up and down and turning the room upside down. Due to their nature, they are highly and hyper active in their behaviour, they like to touch anything their eyes come in contact with, they feel everything is safe to hold, touch or even eat, what ever that comes their way will surely enter their mouth. At this moment it's very critical and important that proper carefulness and watch is placed on them by anybody staying with them at that moment to avoid accident. They may not know the danger their actions may cause them if been allowed to do things they like.

TODDLERS, THE ATTENTION SEEKERS

Have you noticed that toddlers are attention seekers, they like to be given attention at all times and when you fail to show them that you are with them, they feel sad and cry at once. That's why most cases you may see a child that was happy and playing with you, but immediately you step away from his or her sight, the toddler starts to cry and will not stop until he or she sees you around.

TODDLERS UNDERSTAND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY GESTURES

In as much as they are still small and can not talk, they can see your facial expressions and understand your body gestures been made at them, that's why when you play with them and make a funny face at them, they can laugh and be happy, they can also get angry and sad when you make a face that is not friendly to them. They understand you when you make some body gestures to show them that you are not happy with what they are doing or even when you talk in a tone that sounds angrily at them because of their behaviour that is not pleasing to you, once they hear you, they try to stop what ever thing they are doing to look at your face. When they look at your face and see that you are not happy, they will gradually withdraw from what ever thing they were doing that made you shout or call them.

TODDLERS ARE TOO INQUISITIVE

Toddlers are too inquisitive in their nature, they like to see things for themselves, they are always anxious to know what ever their eyes or hands come in contact with. They don't give up on whatever their eyes or hands touches, that's why you see a toddler trying to climb the sofa furniture in the sitting room just to take away the television remote control from the parents, sometimes if you are not careful and they follow you to the kitchen, once they see the gas fire burning, they would want to climb the cooking gas just to touch the burning fire and if anybody is not there to watch over them, they get hurt.

TODDLERS ARE GREAT PLAYMATE

Toddlers love to play a lot once they are fed very well, they love to play and be engaged with lots of different things that could make them happy. If you have a toddler in your care, when once you play with them each time you are around them, they will always love to be around you. Apart from their biological parents that they see as their parents, the next person they know and love to be with is that person that always play with them each time he or she is around them.

TODDLERS LOVE BEING AROUND THEIR FELLOW MATES

Toddlers love to be around their fellow mates.  They talk to each other and communicate in their own language and only them can understand what they are discussing. Your baby can stay quiet all by himself but immediately there is another one or more toddlers around, you will surely hear them talk at each other.

THEY DREAM A LOT

Toddlers are great dreamers, they dream a lot during sleep. You can see that when they sleep, they try to roll from one end of the bed to another with different types of noise while they sleep, at times when they sleep if you watch them closely you will discover that while they sleep they wear smiling faces, touch their faces and even hold their legs as they sleep unconsciously. All these are signs that they maybe having a wonderful dream as they sleep.

THEY LOVE TO DESTROY THINGS WITHIN THEIR REACH.

Finally, toddlers are very good at destroying things at home or even things around them. What ever they lay their hands on, it's either they tire it apart with their hands or they use their mouth to tire it into pieces without looking back.  It's always advisable that when you are with toddlers please mind what you keep for them to play with, if you are not careful, if they lay their hands on your house documents and valuables, they will destroy it without knowing what they are doing.

In all, Toddlers are wonderful and adorable angels in their nature, being around them and watching them grow is the best experience anyone should pray for. I love toddlers and one day I will live to have mine someday soon.

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