Help with discipline - 14 month old driving me insane!!

[IlanaK]

We have just unscrewed and taken the doors off our large TV unit as I could not stand saying "no" for the thousandth time to my 14 month old as he closes the door while my 4 year old is watching tv. I hate the way it looks without the doors, but I really could not stand it another second!

Anyway, I really need help with discipline. My ds1 was never like this. If you told him "no", he never did it again. My 14 month old just laughs when we say no. We try to minimise the times we have to say it by keeping our flat safe for him. He has free access tom ost things, or we have door locks on things we don't want him getting into. The main problem is the tv. If ds1 is watching, he regularly turns it off (he can reach the button). We say "no" firmly and put him in his cot for 1 minute time out. (We live in a flat, not a house so everything is on the same level and nearby). He really doesn't seem to care. And as soon as we let him out, he goes back and does it again. Same with closing the doors. We don't smack. We try distracting which works sometimes. He is really determinded though. He knows he sholdn't be doing it, but does it anyway.

I really never had any of this with ds1 so don't know what to do!

Dd does things like this hence we've had to keep the control panel separate from the TV. Just ignore it as they do it more when they get a reaction. They'll soon get bored.

my ds did similar at this age. His favourite was taking the sky card out of the box constantly. We put him in the travel cot everytime he did it because i got so fed up of saying "no" Distraction worked sometimes but he soon went straight back. I don't think we found the perfect answer but he does seem to have grown out of it. He's now 17 months and his favourite activity is hitting his 2.5 yr old sister over the head with cars or any other misiles he can find. But i just reckon he's getting her back for the last 17 months lol

Hiya - my ds is 14 months too and at the moment his thing is buttons. The remote controls. The tv, video, dvd, computer - anything with a button. This morning I had to restart dd's dvd 6 times because he kept turning it off.

I tell him off, move him away, tell him NO but he just thinks it's great fun and hysterically funny! When he does the dvd, he presses it then really quickly comes to me and lies down before i can tell him off.

Sometimes it's hard not to laugh with him! I'm hoping he'll get bored with it soon!!

Make it impossible for him to keep doing the mischief: we close the bathroom door so DS (also 14 m) can't get to the toilet. We have a wooden panel in front of the computer buttons, we put the stereo out of reach, the rubbish bins are all up high, too. I don't have the patience to try to make a 14m old into an obedient personality (like my dd was, but not my boys), really, making things be out of his reach is so much simpler a solution.