Toddler Commentary

A Snot Contest

Ever wonder what toddlers are really thinking?. It must be difficult to love them so much yet not fully understand their inability to communicate their feelings and thoughts about the world surrounding them.

However, if you look at their subtle cues, you come to realize that their nonverbal cues are unequivocally conclusive of an actual commentary regarding their everyday surroundings.

For example, although toddlers are known for their tirades as they are in the autonomy stage according to Erikson, attachment continues to be an important relationship building process for most individuals and even toddlers. Yet, you wonder whether they actually want an actual relationship with all their sticky crusty snot on their noses. I mean, who actually wants to hug on a snotty kid or even adult?

And to illerate this point further, toddlers tend to rub their snot all over you, place snot on you while you look (:) ), and even look at you as if they've done nothing wrong. *snort* I mean, with all the love surrounding them, it may be difficult to figure out that a little snot may turn peers (eventually) and significant figures in their lives away from them. Because in the end, snot may have the opposite reaction than that of creating a little love reaction.

Their actual "conversation" is probably, "They're kissing again, let's throw snot at them".