Posting here for traffic as not getting a lot on behaviour and development hope that’s okay.
My DS is 2 in a few weeks and I think he overall he is a bright, funny and loving little boy. His speech is coming on brilliantly and he is talking in short sentences. He’s a good sleeper at night time, goes down fine and sleeps through.
However, he has a real naughty streak and I’m struggling to best know how to deal with him at the mo. Obviously I know most 2 year olds are the same, but sometimes I wonder if they’re as bad as my DS?
Basically he’s SO hyperactive constantly, if he’s in my bedroom he’s getting everything out of my drawers, taking lids off bottles of cream etc, squirting my perfume. Then he will move on to my jewellery box and empty it all out onto the floor- it’s impossible for me to get ready unless DP or someone else is watching him or he’s napping. He’s very very strong willed and throws massive tantrums on the floor, sometimes headbutting it if he doesn’t get his own way. I feel like he’s quite a tightly wound child atm.
He also climbs on absolutely everything. When you tell him not to do something, it just encourages him to do it more. He will climb onto the tv stand and hit the tv repeatedly, you tell him off and remove him and it literally makes no difference, he’s back doing it again. He pushes his cars up and down the wall and then looks at us to see how we’re reacting- he’s bright and it’s like he does these things because he knows how to get a reaction and attention is what he wants.
When changing his nappy or getting him dressed it’s such a battle, arches his back, throws a massive tantrum. He will kick me in the stomach and hit me in the face also. When I tell him off he laughs! He finds it funny when I lose my temper with him (which I try not to do but it’s hard). Yesterday I regretfully burst into tears as I’m at my wits end with him. Tbh he did actually stop misbehaving and gave me a hug and said “Mummy’s sad. love you Mummy” so it’s good to know that he has developed the ability to feel remorse and know that it’s wrong.
Any advice/ experience with this sort of behaviour would be really appreciated. I know I need to set boundaries and nip a lot of this in the bud now, I’m trying but my methods don’t seem to be working!