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EmilyC
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Posted: Feb 15 2011 at 6:46pm \| IP Logged

I've been doing lots of reading about Montessori lately, and I want to incorporate lots of those ideas into our home, especially for my youngest, who will be 2 next month.

My problem is, she just throws everything. Her motor skills are a little delayed, and her language is also delayed--she only has maybe 3 words at the moment. She can't self feed with utensils yet, because as soon as you hand her the spoon or fork, she throws it on the floor. She is still using a sippy cup because she throws that too.

Her play time is often spent either arranging her toys on shelves and furniture all around the room or throwing everything on the floor. I've tried coloring with crayons, but she just throws them.

I've been wanting to do some Montessori activities, but it's frustrating to set up an activity for her to just throw everything on the floor.

Any ideas to break her of this habit?

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Posted: Feb 16 2011 at 6:26pm \| IP Logged

I tend to provide my children at that stage, which seems to be fairly common, with a collection of 'Things to Throw' and 'Things to aim at' and then we work at only throwing 'Things to Throw' and only aiming them at acceptable targets. After that we'll work on other things to do with the things that shouldn't be thrown.

With a sufficently varied selection there can be lots of things to do
-making different colors of crumpled paper balls and coloring paper bags to match, and then encouraging the child to throw (or drop) the ball in the matching paper bag
-finding out far different things can be thrown
and so on

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Posted: Feb 16 2011 at 7:00pm \| IP Logged

Thanks! I hadn't thought of turning throwing into an activity. I'll definitely have to try that out.

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Posted: March 26 2011 at 2:49pm \| IP Logged

EmilyC wrote:

Any ideas to break her of this habit?

My 2 1/2 year old son is going through a throwing phase. He has to pick it up right after the throws it, of course. If he continues, the toys/object is taken away.
If it is at dinner time or something, he must go to his room for isolation.

I like the previous posters idea of giving them some game where they CAN throw. That is GREAT for getting it out of their system!

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