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If you've parented for any time at all, you've probably gotten to the point where suddenly, this

sweet little innocent baby that you brought into the world and have trained so perfectly,

becomes a little liar, a little backtalker.

Nobody even taught her how to do this.

She just speaks that way or he's just that way.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werther,

who's the vice president of parenting and youth here it focused on the family and Danny

New parents I mean their child is always going to stay Sweden innocent right I mean how many parents think that's the case

Well that's where we came up with the terrible twos and troubling threes right?

I mean that is it you begin to see your child the many teenage years come out and the

the many teenage years yeah you get a preview of the teenage years there to three the

toddler years notice they use T, toddler and teen, together.

So early on, we get to see some of our own child's desire to have their own will and opinion and they can start out pretty demanding and

selfish as human beings with the human nature being there and I really have thought of if toddlers had the

physical strength of adults they would murder and create a lot of crimes because of the way that the intensity of one

thing for themselves because they need it. It's survival and as adults if you turn

to survival it can turn dangerous.

But for toddlers, they're learning how to navigate surviving and

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