

When I aggressively tell Dylan "no" the only thing he gets from it is that sometimes mommy is mean and mad at him. He doesn't connect that "no" is a reaction to what he's doing, instead it makes him edgy and scared of the word. I recently no'd him while he played with an electrical cord and he cried, crawled over to me and put his head down on my lap. A day later I used "no" in a casual conversation with my husband and Dylan was instantly on the verge of tears. There are a ton of things I can do to prevent an accident from happening that don't require Dylan to be scared of a word that I want him to understand and respect further down the line when he is older. Whether it is distraction, removal or simply letting him learn the hard way, I will no longer be terrorizing my little baby with a campaign that is teaching him nothing other than fear.
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