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Banned body parts
Sep. 17th, 2011 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puzzlementHow do you teach a toddler not to touch certain body parts of yours?
Specifically, my toddler needs to never touch my neck again. I'm one of those people (it's not uncommon) who is a bit panicky about any pressure on my neck, and the sequence of him snuggling into my neck (or trying to put his crawling weight on it) in bed and then me yelling and him screaming in fright needs to end.
For reference, he's 20 months old. He is not yet very verbal (vocab of 20 to 30 words, no sentences). We've been saying "no neck, no neck" to him and moving him for at least 14 months or so, ever since he started to crawl. Now that he's a lot heavier, unfortunately I go straight into a "ohmigod going to die" reaction and don't have a lot of access to "darling, Mama feels like she is going to die when you do that, please do not do it, thank you."
Specifically, my toddler needs to never touch my neck again. I'm one of those people (it's not uncommon) who is a bit panicky about any pressure on my neck, and the sequence of him snuggling into my neck (or trying to put his crawling weight on it) in bed and then me yelling and him screaming in fright needs to end.
For reference, he's 20 months old. He is not yet very verbal (vocab of 20 to 30 words, no sentences). We've been saying "no neck, no neck" to him and moving him for at least 14 months or so, ever since he started to crawl. Now that he's a lot heavier, unfortunately I go straight into a "ohmigod going to die" reaction and don't have a lot of access to "darling, Mama feels like she is going to die when you do that, please do not do it, thank you."
