It's TRANSITION TIME, folks!

 

Tell me if this scene sounds familiar………..You’ve just returned home from shopping/working/exercising to find that your toddler  is COMPLETELY ignoring you!

An ‘Ask Mother Goose’ reader recently asked me to help him and his wife handle this situation with their 14 month old daughter.

Here’s what I offered:

1. Do not take this personally.
2. Be sure to enter the house in a calm and cheerful way (even though you might be tired).
3. Say hello to all that are in the area without focusing in on the young child.
4. Plop yourself down on a chair or on the floor and maintain the ‘no eye contact deal.’
5. Busy yourself by looking into your purse/wallet/briefcase or playing with a toy.
6. Wait for that scrumptious little one to soon be offering you a treasure or a snuggle.

A ritual is born!