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I find the easiest way to feed side-account pets is to just keep my neopoints on my side accounts at less than 3000 and visit the Soup Faerie. Since the only thing you can really use the neopoints for on side accounts is transfering pets, you really don't need piles of neopoints on your side accounts.

I'm studying early childhood education and I'd just like to throw some things out there.
 
The options point is key. Always give the child options that still lead to what you want. For example, there was one child in my preschool room during placement who did not like putting her sleeping toy away after nap time. If I just said, "Okay, it's time to put your toy away" she'd throw a fit. If I said, "In one more minute it will be time to put your toy away" and came back in one minute and said, "It's time to put your toy away now. Do you want to put it away, or do you want me to put it away?" she'd make her decision and happily move on to the next thing. Children are small people in a big world and they often are forced to do what the big people tell them to do. They need their little moments of control.
 
I'd just like to state for the record that time outs are not developmentally appropriate. In fact, if I put a child on a time out, I would fail placement (at this stage in life) or be fired (once I get a paying job in the field). Time outs do not show a child what they did wrong or what they should be doing. Ignoring the child doesn't help because a two-year-old is still learning self-regulation. They don't yet know how to deal with their emotions on their own and they need someone to help guide them through it.
 
It is very important to use positive language with children. This means telling them what they should do, rather than just what they shouldn't do. You must also explain why you don't want them to do the thing that you don't want them to do. For example, we don't say to children, "Don't hit," we say, "We hurt people when we hit. We use our words when we don't like something. You tell her, 'I don't like that' instead of hitting" If you just say, "Don't hit" the child knows what not to do, but not what they should do.

I'm studying early childhood education and I'd just like to throw some things out there.
 
The options point is key. Always give the child options that still lead to what you want. For example, there was one child in my preschool room during placement who did not like putting her sleeping toy away after nap time. If I just said, "Okay, it's time to put your toy away" she'd throw a fit. If I said, "In one more minute it will be time to put your toy away" and came back in one minute and said, "It's time to put your toy away now. Do you want to put it away, or do you want me to put it away?" she'd make her decision and happily move on to the next thing. Children are small people in a big world and they often are forced to do what the big people tell them to do. They need their little moments of control.
 
I'd just like to state for the record that time outs are not developmentally appropriate. In fact, if I put a child on a time out, I would fail placement (at this stage in life) or be fired (once I get a paying job in the field). Time outs do not show a child what they did wrong or what they should be doing. Ignoring the child doesn't help because a two-year-old is still learning self-regulation. They don't yet know how to deal with their emotions on their own and they need someone to help guide them through it.
 
It is very important to use positive language with children. This means telling them what they should do, rather than just what they shouldn't do. You must also explain why you don't want them to do the thing that you don't want them to do. For example, we don't say to children, "Don't hit," we say, "We hurt people when we hit. We use our words when we don't like something. You tell her, 'I don't like that' instead of hitting" If you just say, "Don't hit" the child knows what not to do, but not what they should do.

I find the easiest way to feed side-account pets is to just keep my neopoints on my side accounts at less than 3000 and visit the Soup Faerie. Since the only thing you can really use the neopoints for on side accounts is transfering pets, you really don't need piles of neopoints on your side accounts.

I find the easiest way to feed side-account pets is to just keep my neopoints on my side accounts at less than 3000 and visit the Soup Faerie. Since the only thing you can really use the neopoints for on side accounts is transfering pets, you really don't need piles of neopoints on your side accounts.

You are only allowed one main account, so you are free to choose whether you want to keep your unfrozen account or your new account as your main. Just freeze one of them or use one as a side account from now on (you may wish to write on the profile of the side account that it is now a side just to make everything clear). I can't think of a single situation where you are not allowed to move pets around your own accounts, so you should be safe.