How do i make my children behave?

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Ive spent most of the afternoon moving toddlers off the TV unit and the window sill. Told to get down and moved when they don't. They just go back.
One constantly pulls hair, like fist fulls as he giggles. Hands removed, told no. He just goes back and does it again and again. He also bites surreptitiously.

They just dont listen to me. They're still not talking (odd words) and im worried I've made something wrong with them

Can you make them a safe area/padded cell where they can go wild without hurting themselves? They're young enough that you could get several years use out of it...

Also I think I recall that twins are generally slower to speech so I wouldn't worry too much about that just yet.

@Camomila no idea, maybe the view lol. They love the vertical blinds. They have lots of toys etc they can get - their bikes, teddies, and they're tall enough to reach the books too without climbing.

@BookFiend4Life no, we're in a 3 bed, one living room which is long but no clear area to mark off.

Any hint of dicking around I used to separate mine. I had an extendable gate thing across the living room, one one side one the other. Withdraw all fun for 5 minutes.

Sounds awful but treat them like puppies. Stand stock still arms folded across chest and ignore them for 1 minute.

It's all about boundaries, attention and control of their tiny world at that age.

How are you getting on?

Hey. We're on holiday atm so they're out of routine but also we're out the house as much as possible. The problem with toddler twins is they end up in the buggy so much as you're trying to walk one each plus buggy plus 6 yo otherwise and they don't go on the same direction lol. How are yours doing @Onemorewouldbelovely?

Find some old children's programmes on YouTube, something they will never have watched before, ds loved watching Camberwick Green, Chigley & Trumpton.

I only have one so I'm sure it's much harder with three but mine went through a climbing phase when I was in first trimester with little sibling (also the time she decided she wasn't going to nap!). She'd wait until I was trying to lie down and rest a bit then start climbing up the shelves and traversing across the window sill. I was just super consistent with saying "no climbing when mummy is resting" in the most boring voice and putting her back on the floor. She did get it eventually. I let her climb when I could supervise her and now she's realised there's nothing very interesting up there so she doesn't bother doing it unless she's chasing the cat or something.

If you can't be in the same room as them then I'd suggest putting something noisy in the way that they have to move to climb so that if they start climbing you'll hear and can quickly go in and move them down. That's what I did so I could shut my eyes for a few minutes.

No advice on the biting or hitting as we've not had that yet!

Sorry for taking so long. How was the holiday?
I feel bad about them being in the buggy so much too. I've got twin reins but it's still so hard.
When does school start?

We tried reins in holiday. Omg chaos hahaha. Back Monday, you? We're ok, twin1 have ear infection so at home but geez cranky babies are hard work lol. Eldest apparently kinda had fun in holiday 🙄

Our remains are chaos but getting better. Timing it so they are both happy is ludicrously hard though.

Urgh cranky babies make everything worse. How's it going?

Back to school and finally gone quiet upstairs 😬 lets say adjusting back to having bed naps is... Journey!! God knows where they'll be sleeping 😅😅 i found one kneeling on the floor head on the ved like he was saying his prayers this morning 😅😅

Nothing to offer but I love hearing about twins' antics!

Oooh are they in beds not cots??? I'm dreading that.

Yeah, we took the sides off. T2 climbed out and t1 broke his so seemed safest. This was last night before one fell out and I put him in his own bed

Aww they look very cute sleeping together.