You are listening to episode 77, understanding why our toddlers bite, hit, and throw, and how to navigate it.

Welcome to this episode. I am so excited to welcome Dr. Sige. She is a developmental therapist working with children and families.

She is on Instagram as Dr. Sige, S-I-G-G-I-E, where she shares so much information on how we can parent our children and understand child behavior and development a little bit more.

Thank you so much for joining us today, Dr. Sige.

Thank you so much for having me, Mona.

I'm so excited. I love your account, and you know, you have so much to talk about, but we are talking about a common question I get asked about biting, hitting, and throwing.

So that's what we're going to be discussing today. But before we begin, tell me more about yourself and why you started your Instagram account.

The reason for the Instagram is because I did feel that I have a lot to share with more people than I can obviously see in my office.

I always had this sense that there's more people out there I can reach. And obviously social media is a wonderful platform for that, that I think we all can enjoy.

So that was the reason I also was working on a course that I was beginning to develop so I can once again reach out so many more people through that course.

And the Instagram platform was allowing me to get to know a lot of people, for a lot of people to get to know me, so I can then introduce my course.

And I'm happy that it's been a wonderful experience, being able to reach out so many people, and for them mainly to reach back to me, I'm like in awe of that each and every time.

Oh, that's so great. And I am so glad that I found your account also, you know, as a pediatrician, it's just so important to hear other people's perspective.

You know, obviously I have my own training and expertise, but it's just you never can learn enough in my opinion.

Sure.

And some experts that are specialized in a certain niche, right?

So for me, it's been so great to follow you in the way you talk about certain things, resonates so well with me as a pediatrician also having a toddler.

So I really appreciate you wanting to share your expertise with the broader group of people.

It means so much as someone who's doing something similar with child health and wellness.

It's exactly why I started my Instagram, so I really appreciate that.

Yeah, thank you, and make sense.

Yeah, so we were talking about biting, hitting, throwing, like I said already, there were so many topics we could talk about.

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