I just sorta lives at the park. Thankfully, I didn't have another until he was 4, so we could do whatever we wanted. There was a summer we went twice a day. Once after breakfast and once after nap. He slept like the dead 😂😂
I have 3 wild ones. Last week, we bought a pack of those foam pool balls so they could throw them at eachother. They call it a "water balloon" fight. I haven't had to clean a huge mess in days!
Check out Bringing up Boys by James Dobson. He also champions kids needs to move. Especially boys have that extra dose of testosterone also. So outside time every day is so important!! Climbing, sliding,running, balls, swimming, sports etc. Most kids generally feel better with regular fun outside time. I’ve taught school for many years and find they do much better after a nice long playground/PE time❤
My 3 year old is my crazy one, but she is also the one that is always ready to help out. She is like a Belgian Malinois: such a hard worker, but if she doesn’t have job she will destroy anything she can reach.
I was an Early Childhood teacher and this is excellent advice. I would also add being outdoors as much as possible and very little or no screen time. Too much time indoors and screen time just exacerbates the wildness.
We got my brother a drum kit. (Started with bongos.) My grands love my giant yoga ball. We build forts. Swim lessons. They have a chin up bar set at child level. Gliding bikes without pedals, for now.
This sounds like a child with something called Sensory Input Dysfunction. Get a book on it. It's not all about "wild" behavior, but also about sensory input, figuring out where your body is in relation to the world around you. Being ultra-sensitive to things touching you, like seams in your socks, tags on your shirts. Kids that walk around on their tiptoes because they don't want their whole foot to touch the floor. Can't stand getting their cuffs wet. Like the old tale about the princess and the pea - the queen put a single dried pea under a stack of mattresses to see if the girl was a real princess. Would she feel the lump. A lot of kids with SID (not the same as sids, obviously), have trouble learning to read and add. Occupational therapy helps. Our daughter couldn't retain the spelling of the word cat - C-A-T - from one day to the next. We got her some help, and put her in public school 4th grade. By the end of the year, she was reading at grade level. In another year, she was at 8th grade level, and devoured the Harry Potter books. The next year, college level. If not for the therapy, she still probably wouldn't be reading. If you can't figure out what's going on with your child, and any of this sounds familiar, find a book on SID, and talk to an occupational therapist that is conversant with it. It doesn't take a whole lot to unscramble the wiring in your child's brain. The wiring's all there, it just needs a little reorganization.
@@justamags I think I already responded. Mine isn't medicated, but as time passes it's not totally off the table. Been living with this for 10 years. Still waiting to see how it goes. No one wants a Zombie. You seem angry. It's just part of the human condition.❤️
I just sorta lives at the park. Thankfully, I didn't have another until he was 4, so we could do whatever we wanted. There was a summer we went twice a day. Once after breakfast and once after nap. He slept like the dead 😂😂
I have 3 wild ones. Last week, we bought a pack of those foam pool balls so they could throw them at eachother. They call it a "water balloon" fight. I haven't had to clean a huge mess in days!
Check out Bringing up Boys by James Dobson. He also champions kids needs to move. Especially boys have that extra dose of testosterone also. So outside time every day is so important!! Climbing, sliding,running, balls, swimming, sports etc. Most kids generally feel better with regular fun outside time. I’ve taught school for many years and find they do much better after a nice long playground/PE time❤
My 3 year old is my crazy one, but she is also the one that is always ready to help out. She is like a Belgian Malinois: such a hard worker, but if she doesn’t have job she will destroy anything she can reach.
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I love the comparison. 😂 It's pretty accurate 🤣
I was an Early Childhood teacher and this is excellent advice. I would also add being outdoors as much as possible and very little or no screen time. Too much time indoors and screen time just exacerbates the wildness.
@@steff9041
We just got notification that the Middle School wants to take away Middle School Recess!!! People are furious. 👀
We got my brother a drum kit. (Started with bongos.) My grands love my giant yoga ball. We build forts. Swim lessons. They have a chin up bar set at child level. Gliding bikes without pedals, for now.
LITTERALY. MY 8 YEAR OLD FOLLOWS US AROUND THE HOUSE
So basically rough and tumble play.
Get a chuckit and teach them to fetch.
I'm trying to watch this video but, the little demon is all over me!!! 😅
Noodle sword fights
This sounds like a child with something called Sensory Input Dysfunction. Get a book on it. It's not all about "wild" behavior, but also about sensory input, figuring out where your body is in relation to the world around you. Being ultra-sensitive to things touching you, like seams in your socks, tags on your shirts. Kids that walk around on their tiptoes because they don't want their whole foot to touch the floor. Can't stand getting their cuffs wet. Like the old tale about the princess and the pea - the queen put a single dried pea under a stack of mattresses to see if the girl was a real princess. Would she feel the lump. A lot of kids with SID (not the same as sids, obviously), have trouble learning to read and add. Occupational therapy helps. Our daughter couldn't retain the spelling of the word cat - C-A-T - from one day to the next. We got her some help, and put her in public school 4th grade. By the end of the year, she was reading at grade level. In another year, she was at 8th grade level, and devoured the Harry Potter books. The next year, college level. If not for the therapy, she still probably wouldn't be reading. If you can't figure out what's going on with your child, and any of this sounds familiar, find a book on SID, and talk to an occupational therapist that is conversant with it. It doesn't take a whole lot to unscramble the wiring in your child's brain. The wiring's all there, it just needs a little reorganization.
Maybe try removing synthetic colors from there diets?
Put ‘em in gymnastics
Benadryl 😅
Makes me real glad I don't have kids. Not even kidding.
As a GenX I fully approve feral upbringing. Just direct it to positive activities.
Sorry, I had parents.
Is it possible the kid has ADHD?
Sounds it. 👀
That is a way overused label/diagnosis. Toddlers aren't meant to be sitting still and quiet. They need to play, not be medicated into being zombies.
@@justamags
I think I already responded. Mine isn't medicated, but as time passes it's not totally off the table. Been living with this for 10 years. Still waiting to see how it goes. No one wants a Zombie. You seem angry. It's just part of the human condition.❤️
@@evilqueenyiayia You're making assumptions. I'm simply commenting my opinion just like you are. Doesn't mean I'm angry by sharing an opinion. 😂
@@justamags
Sorry I was worried ❤️🤣
Maybe there neurodivergent?
Highly likely, so for kids that are outside the box, we gotta think outside the box too.
Toddlers are meant to move and play. Doesn't mean they are neurodivergent.
@@justamags Nope, but genetics are fun, and their Daddy is neurodivergent.
@@justamags
Honey, my grand is and she was born to move. Needs to take breaks at supper just to run around the kitchen. 😂
You both have your own experiences and circumstances. Doesn't mean the child she references in this post is neurodivergent. That was my point.