Mummy Tots - Growing Up

Recent updates on Lil Ms....

Think she's showing greater sense of independence and understanding.

Sleeping
She has recently been wanting to lie on her bed and be patted to sleep instead of carried and cuddled to sleep. We have been carrying her in our arms to sleep for 24 mths, suddenly my lil gal decides she can sleep on her own.- wow that's nice, cos I know she's growing up!

Toilet training
She doesn't like to sit on the potty not even for 30 secs, so when we were in Korea I bought her a toddler toilet seat to attach to the adult toilet seat, not forgetting that it had to be her fave character Hello Kitty. Lo & behold she loves to sit on the seat, but she just sat and did nothing the first week or so. So next step, I decided to educate her with books and DVD. I chanced upon Elmo's potty DVD and bought it since she likes Elmo and now she's hooked on the DVD. Think watching the DVD repeatedly and us encouraging her did some wonders cause now she can pee every time she's on the toilet seat (that's of cos if bladder is full). She will even pee, take the toilet paper, clean herself and flush the toilet and say bye bye .. so funny. Anyway I'll just leave it to her to tell us when she wants to go... dun wan to stress her.

Eating by herself and drinking from the cup
She's able to scoop up her food and use the fork to eat. She has not started eating her meals on her own but only during the end of meals when she's almost done we'll let her finish up on her own. She's into drinking from the cup and can now control her sips but still not quite good at holding onto the cup without spilling cos she's use to holding her sippy bottle in all directions.

Anyway I've never really like to enforce things the hard way on my child except for routines. I always tell hubby that she's only a baby once or only 2 yrs old once... and soon you know it she doesn't want you to carry her, feed her, help her and so no need to rush the process for her to do it on her own, we just need to expose her to the things we want her to do. But saying that doesn't mean we let her do whatever she likes, we do discipline her and scold/beat her when she crosses the line. Also I suppose I prefer to inculcate and teach her instead of hard enforcement which I find works for her and us as its less stressful but of course it probably takes a longer time to achieve but we do get there.

I've been reading "The Happiest Toddler on the Block" and it's really an easy and enjoyable read and what's great is the tips on disciplining our toddler, I've tried some of it and it does wonders!
Hope to find more good reads ahead...