Over these next three years you’ll constantly be molding your child’s behavior, encouraging the good and discouraging the bad. I find it helps to think of your job as being a bit like a traffic light: Flash a green light (Go!) to behaviors you want to continue; flash a yellow light (Warning!) to behaviors that are annoying; and flash a red light (Stop now!) to actions that are seriously unacceptable and/or dangerous. Some parents I know refer to green-yellow-red behaviors as the Good, the Bad … and the Ugly!

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♦ Chapter 5 will cover green-light behaviors and give you specific tips for boosting your toddler’s good actions and manners.

♦ Chapter 6 presents fast, effective, and loving ways to curb your toddler’s annoying yellow-light behaviors.

♦ Chapter 7 teaches you “take-charge” consequences that are perfect for quickly putting the brakes on your child’s aggressive, dangerous, or disrespectful red-light behaviors.

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