#119: Helping Toddler with Shyness & Strong Parental Preference

Parenting Beyond Discipline - A podcast by Erin Royer, MA Clinical Psychology, Child Development Specialist

How do you teach a toddler to be polite to friends, relatives and sitters when they hit a shy stage without pushing and ending in a power struggle? Erin gives tips to this parent on guiding his toddler through this stage. What do you do when your toddler strongly prefers one parent over the other? This can be very painful to the rejected parent and exhausting for the preferred parent. Erin guides these parents in dealing with this issue with their toddler.