Caleb is (rather annoyingly) into changing his mind all.the.time. One minute he wants milk, I get it then he says "I don't want it." If I put it away, he says "I wanted it!." He always has an attitude and a whine about his responses too. This happens with everything - when I ask him to help with something, one minute he agrees the next he doesn't.
I'm trying to explain to him he can't change his mind OR have an attitude about it, but its not clicking. Somehow I don't think timeout is an appropriate consequence....it has no effect on him for this. Anyone else's toddlers do this? How do you handle it?
ACK! Toddlers can drive you insane!
Re: Toddlers & Changing minds
We sort of do this too. He gets a lot of say but if he keeps changing his mind we narrow it. This or this. The end. Also, limit choices because when there are too many it is harder to make a decision and stick with it. When it is just milk or no milk I would give him one more chance. Milk or no milk? Ok, lets move on now. Sometimes I will just do the easiest thing for me which in this instance would be to pour the milk anyway and say it is sitting right here if you want it and if you don't - well I didn't pour enough that throwing it out would matter Basically we are just short and sweet and we don't go back and forth a lot.