No, No, No: Welcome To Toddlerhood

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If you’re raising a toddler, chances are you’ve been yelled at for peeling the banana wrong. Or for offering the right cup when suddenly, somehow, it was the wrong one.

Or—for simply breathing.

Welcome to toddlerhood.

A time of breathtaking growth.

Of emotional chaos.

Of tiny feet stomping through big feelings.

Of contradictions that don’t make sense—until you realize, they aren’t meant to.

Toddlerhood is not just a stage—it’s a storm of becoming.

A season where a child’s brain grows at astonishing speed, forming billions of new connections.

Where joy and fury can sit side by side.

Where “no” might mean “I don’t know how to say yes yet,” or “please stay with me while I fall apart.”

This is not misbehavior.

This is becoming human.

And your presence—your eyes, your voice, your steadiness—shapes the very wiring of their emotional world.

In the next post, we’ll look more closely at the emotional life of toddlers—what’s happening underneath their behavior, and how understanding it can help you breathe a little easier.