Repeating the same instructions daily

Girl, I hear ya and it’s a toddler thing. Yesterday, my 3 year old was “fathering” his stuffed animals. He likes to change their imaginary diapers, feed them, scold them for hitting each other, etc. haha. He scolded Teddy for “monkeying on the couch” which is something he’s told not to do about every 10 minutes it feels like. Then an hour later he was monkeying on the couch! I asked him why he would do that if he knows it’s wrong and even told Teddy not to do it? I got no answer and learned nothing new about why they do this 🤷🏻‍♀️

That's a toddler for you. They don't understand being told not to do things.

ha! how toddler of them. this is why we don’t scold… its doesn’t work and just creates more frustration. we curb behaviors in other ways

Hi - I read that toddlers don’t understand the words no, not, don’t etc in a sentence. So if you say “don’t jump on the couch” or “no you can’t have a chocolate” - all they hear is “jump on the couch” “have a chocolate” so they think it’s ok to do/ask for something that they technically shouldn’t do repeatedly ask for something that you don’t want them to eat. I tried it with my son and showed him a yellow triangle and a blue triangle - he knows his colours - so when I said which is not the yellow triangle he pointed at the yellow triangle because all he got was yellow triangle instead of the “not”. When I asked him which was the blue triangle he pointed it out straight away. Sorry long post but basically were meant to change the way we say “don’t jump on the couch” to “the couch is for sitting, sit down”. Anyway, something to try I guess!