Learn to understand and support your toddler's behaviour for healthy development

Coaching for parents of toddlers

Are you a parent longing for more ease in the relationship with your toddler?

As a parent, you are fully committed to raising your toddler with love and patience, because of course you want your toddler to develop in a happy way. You want the very best for your child.

Your toddler has a natural drive to discover themselves and the world in a joyful way, and you want to enjoy being the parent of this particular child.

You already know that toddlerhood can be a challenging period in parenting. That is why you keep looking for ways to support your toddler well and to have a pleasant time together.

You regularly feel disappointed about the interaction with your toddler, there are frequent disagreements and you do not always feel sure about your role as a parent. The warm atmosphere at home that you long for is often hard to find.

You are struggling with how to respond to your toddler's behaviour. You doubt what guidance your child truly needs. Should you just let your toddler continue with the unwanted behaviour, or should you become even stricter? Neither option really feels right. But how can you improve the atmosphere at home and experience more ease in the relationship with your toddler? This is possible in your home too.

By gaining understanding and insight into what lies deeper beneath your toddler's unwanted behaviour, you can create lasting change. What is the inner blockage your toddler is struggling with, and how does it influence the behaviour you see?

The path to a relaxed bond with your toddler goes much deeper than simply 'parenting as well as possible'. The way your toddler responds to the outside world, processes incoming stimuli and inevitably converts them into bodily tension and emotional blockages are important factors.

Toddlerhood is a sensitive phase in your child's development and forms a foundation for your future bond. During this phase you have the opportunity to work preventively and help your toddler develop healthy behaviour patterns, so that later you will not only be repairing your relationship.

So now is the time to take action. Do not wait any longer and get started. Your toddler also longs for a relaxed bond with you.

Do you recognise this in your toddler?

Regularly has intense emotional outbursts and struggles to calm down again (anger, tantrums, sadness, fear, etc.).

Repeatedly shows unwanted behaviour.

Is busy and constantly has an urge to move. You look for activities to release energy, but it never seems enough to help your toddler become calm.

Shows exemplary behaviour elsewhere but is constantly in conflict with you at home.

Is quickly startled by things happening in the environment. Sudden loud noises or bright light make your toddler unsettled.

Is so alert to the environment that it is hard to relax.

Regularly clings to you and often pulls back from the outside world.

Responds impulsively with aggression to situations that feel unwanted for your toddler.

Shows demanding behaviour; everything has to happen in your toddler's way.

Has a strong will and fully commits to getting their own way.

Does not like being touched or touching certain things (sand, water, soap, glue).

Becomes irritated by certain clothing or parts of clothing (labels, seams).

Do you recognise this in yourself?

You respond to your toddler in a way you later regret.

You keep ending up in the same daily struggle with your toddler.

You feel that your current approach is not reaching your toddler.

You do not understand why your toddler is showing this behaviour.

You want the very best for your toddler and are now looking for the right approach in your guidance.

You want a pleasant atmosphere at home where everyone feels understood.

You can start the change toward more ease in the relationship with your toddler

Not by only changing your own behaviour, but by staying close to yourself and first changing the relationship with your toddler.

Not by only wanting to change your toddler's behaviour, but by accepting your toddler's individuality more, so they gain more trust in themselves and in you.

By discovering and applying new possibilities in the interaction with your child.

By understanding why simply 'parenting as well as possible' is not enough.

By understanding how your toddler arrives at the unwanted behaviour.

By knowing how to keep relating to your toddler respectfully despite the behaviour shown, so your toddler can also relate to you respectfully again.

By knowing how to listen effectively and empathically to your toddler, so your toddler also starts listening to you.

By knowing that by nature you already were, still are and always will be the best parent for your toddler.

By learning how to handle challenging situations in the right way.

By learning how to actively help your toddler develop optimally.

By having tools that help you build a relaxed, balanced and strong bond with your toddler, so you can continue to be a close team.

It all starts with recognising and accepting that the situation you are currently in with your toddler is not the situation you want. This may be the hardest step on the way to more ease in the relationship with your toddler.

But;

What would it be like for you if I helped you become the parent for your toddler that you truly want to be, starting from the qualities you already have?

And;

What would it be like for both of you if you could enjoy more ease in your relationship with the help of my insights and advice?

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