Instead of thinking that our child is trying to wind us up by poking out their tongue at us and then laughing, we can look from their perspective. They are testing out a new sound, seeing our reaction, and figuring out cause and effect. Again, let’s observe and see if they stop all by themselves. Or we may come up with something else that is okay and say something like “I don’t like it when you poke your tongue out at me, but we can go and tumble on the carpet over here.”
