Teaching Your Child to Say Yes and No

These are important words for your little one, because they will be able to express opinions, likes, and dislikes with two simple words.

Some kids learn the meaning of yes and no later than others (first, they usually understand no, then yes, because it is used more often by parents and also because kids tend to want to express dislikes more often than likes). Some parents do use “no climbing”, “no eating”, while others prefer to redirect their kids’ behavior. So, some kids will hear no more often than others.

But here are some tips on how to teach your little one to say yes and no:

1.     Use gestures / nod and shake your head whenever you use yes and no in context

2.     Verbalize for your child, if he is in the pre-verbal stage: Yes (nodding), you want the car (if the child indicates in some way that she wants a car)

3.     Sing Uh-Huh from Super Simple Learning

For those of you who speak Romanian, here is a short video.