My wonderful 18 month old is a very happy boy and full of fun, very boisterous and physically active. At bedtimes however when we are trying to have milk abs quiet cuddles in his room he has started gritting his teeth and hitting me around the face. He got me with his sippy cup the other night and bruised my nose. I try to tell him firmly no but he seems to find this very funny. I have tried holding his arms and he screams his head off and cries. Last night he started it and I said ‘no’ twice firmly and he carried on so I put him in his cot and walked out. He had an absolute melt down and was sobbing so DH went in and took over and he was asleep in 10 minutes. He never does this with him only me.
Any ideas how to tackle this? Or should I just wait for it to pass as a phase? I sometimes suspect he’s very overtired as he is full on all day, but don’t want to be ignoring the behaviour if I shouldn’t be. He’s my PFB so not sure what is age appropriate and books seem to have very widely differing approaches. TIA
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18 month old hitting me at bedtime
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UncleBunclesHouse · 18/11/2020 20:24
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