ARGH comes to mind. I'm sure it's part of the terrible 2's and testing boundaries etc. But he's so annoying. Any suggestions how to deal with stubborn and very strong 2 year old very welcome.
Typical scenario:
DS does something he's not supposed to do.
I remove him with very affirmative NO
He runs back to continue
I slap his hand slightly and remove him
He runs back again
I slap his hand a bit harder twice and remove him
He runs back again
He gets slap on well padded behind
He runs back again
I physically pick him up and restrain him for a while counting to 10 - problem there is he's quite heavy and very strong so it's actually quite painful for me iykwim
This sort of works with a 50/50 success rate that after the last step he goes off and does something else
I've tried skipping right to the last stage but no success either
My mum told me I'm just not an authority figure... thanks mum!
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DS (2.5) not listening to me at all, but jumps at anything dh says...
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MrsBigD · 17/02/2007 09:45
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