'Use Your Words' is the Right Goal. It Just Might be the Wrong Moment.

Your toddler knows words. Probably a lot of them. They narrate their breakfast, they explain exactly which cup they want, they have strong opinions about which shoe goes on which foot. The vocabulary is there.

So when they're melting down in the middle of the grocery store and you kneel down and say "use your words", it feels reasonable. You know they have words, they use them all day long. What's the problem?

The problem isn't vocabulary. It's neuroscience.

Real talk,

for real families.

I started kinder co. because there's a real gap between what the research says and what makes it into your home.

This blog is where I close that gap, one topic at a time.

'Use Your Words' is the Right Goal. It Just Might be the Wrong Moment.

Your toddler knows words. Probably a lot of them. They narrate their breakfast, they explain exactly which cup they want, they have strong opinions about which shoe goes on which foot. The vocabulary is there.

“Real strategies for real families.”

@kindercopnw