“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
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We expect it to be the other way round. We think that we are supposed to teach our children about life and everything. But you’ll be surprised to know that there are many life lessons that your toddler might teach you. They have a host of important lessons for us too. All we need to do is pay close attention!
5 Lessons Toddlers Can Teach You
1. Don’t Give Up After Failure
Toddlers learn by failing. A simple example is wearing clothes. When getting dressed by themselves, they often wear clothes inside out. They fail at a task, but they don’t give up. They are not embarrassed by their failures. They try again and teach us the same to never give up in life.
2. Practice Patience
We know that the words toddlers and patience don’t go together. But have you ever seen them stack good ole’ building blocks? They do everything in their power to complete constructing a building or house, in short, a particular task, with full patience and concentration. Their patience can teach you to trust your instincts and perform your tasks with patience. Get your little one Mega Building Blocks today and spend some time playing with them. Watch how they focus and build while you both learn a new set of skills.
3. Unbiased Love
One of the most beautiful things about children is that they don’t have preconceived notions about how to behave with people based on their age, race, religion, occupation, etc. They judge people based on their kindness and their behaviour towards them. Toddlers’ unbiased way of living life is what we should learn from them.
4. Express Your Feelings
Toddlers don’t shy away from displaying their emotions and feelings. They simply don’t hold back their anger or sadness. They just exhibit their emotions to you and get it over with. We must learn this important lesson from toddlers to share our feelings with others rather than keeping them to ourselves.
5. Ask For Help
Everyone wishes to do their tasks independently, without asking for help. Toddlers, too, feel the same but depend on their parents and caregivers to help them out every now and then. Keeping our ego aside, we must ask others for help if we need it, just like toddlers.
Toddlers might be unaware of the prosocial behaviours, but our little ones might inspire us to learn a lesson or two. Watch your children closely and comment and tell us what you learned from your toddler.
