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Toddlers can be challenging, but understanding why they act and react as they do can make the daily interactions with one far more pleasant and productive. Here are five tips to a happier and healthier toddler.

How Should I Talk to My Toddler?
It’s important for you and your spouse to talk to your toddler in an adult manner. Toddlers are much smarter than we used to think. They learn at a tremendous rate. Thus, put feelings into words, and label your own and their feelings with words. Listen and talk! And keep the decibels down... don't start raising your voice.

Stuff happens.

Somebody keys your car when it's just sitting there in the supermarket parking lot; you set your briefcase down for a second to blow your nose and it gets stolen; or vandals have picked your house as target practice, and broken all your windows.

You yell out to the heavens, "What is going on? Why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this?" You're angry, frustrated and hurt. You become paranoid, fearful and distrusting.

It’s inevitable: if you interact with other human beings, you’re going to be subject to an assortment of slights, glares and smirks (if not downright rude gestures). Whether their behavior is intentional or not, the driver that cuts you off, the person in front of you in the "15 items only" line with 25 items in their cart, the sales person who refuses to make eye contact as they text away on their phone—are all annoying.

Have you ever been frustrated when your husband didn’t clean the kitchen the way you would have, or when your wife put your tools away in the wrong drawers so you couldn’t find them? Perhaps you even shake your head thinking that your spouse just doesn’t "get it" sometimes? This can be a natural conclusion since men and women generally think differently—a man might not see the socks on the floor on his way back to the garage to finish an important project just as a woman may not finish her project right away because she notices the socks on the floor and then the dishes in the sink.