Think back over your day - how many times did you have to say "get ready", "tidy up", "please just..."? Melissa Hood, founder of The Parent Practice, says:
"Children under the age of six can’t absorb more than one or two pieces of information, so an instruction which says:“Go upstairs, brush your teeth, get into your pyjamas and choose a story. I’ll be up in five minutes to check on youâ€, is likely to result in you discovering your child 10 minutes later sitting on the stairs, ‘thinking’."
Read more advice in her guest blog here.
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