Re: Question regarding GEntle Discipline - Two Year Old
Sounds like you are doing great understanding her feelings and showing grace.
What I would do next is remove whatever item she has thrown for a time, especially if it is a hard toy. Part of your job is to help protect her from the negative consequences that immature acts can create. I would say 'We need to put this block away for a time until we can play with it without throwing it. Someone could get hurt. Now..(and get back to the issue at hand)"
Right now all that happens is that she has to pick up the item AND is not likely really understanding the complete concepts of 'not treating items that way'. It might be more easily processed if the time 'goes away' for a time.
Now if she just spiked her favorite doll that she can't sleep without, then clearly, show grace. (But you could take a different angle "poor dolly, I think that scared her" or something if you want.)
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Elizabeth
"Truth without love is divisive and hurtful & love without truth is anemic"--Pastor Estep
Arise, cry out in the night...pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord; Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children..; Lamentations 2:19
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