As a parent now for nearly sixteen years I actually understand the fine balance between toddler discipline, and squashing the spirit of a young child.
When my first child Ellie was born I was completely new with this thing termed parenting, and I discovered most of the parenting books to be contradictory at best and many simply stupid at worst. This may sound harsh to many new parents who are seeking a right path as a parent.
I can understand as being a parent is really a tricky business specially when talking about discipline and specifically toddler discipline, if you opt for the free range strategy and just let your children kind of develop in the vain expect all is going to be well, then you'll probably be living some sort of living nightmare, with your kid entirely dictating the agenda and totally running your life.
On the other hand if you go for total discipline as favored by several through the years, then you run the risk of completely losing the true essences of your kid's persona.
I would like to say that their is a holy grail of toddler discipline, that you can follow and tick off the list as you go, and trust me many people would attempt to offer it to you like this. Just how I see it, it's about two core things boundaries and communication especially as your kid starts to get to the toddler stage and beyond.
I still find this to be with my 16 and 13 old kids, I have what i refer to as my fall back position, that's as long as I will go on any given issue, that's my boundary that in most cases my kids over a few years have learnt to recognize, however within those boundaries their is a number of opportunities of freedom of expression and chances to grow as a human being that I personally feel is necessary.
To do this though good communication is key when implementing toddler discipline, to this end I have been really privileged to have learnt things such as NLP that have aided me shape my speaking skills and gestures to get maximum engagement with my kids.
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