My DS is a very very active, adventurous child, was an early crawler, walker, won't really sit sit still for a second. Current favourite activity is jumping, preferably of the highest thing he can find! So, he is supervised every second for safety reasons (I don't stop him from exploring, or cossett him, just stay very close to catch him when necessary...). He doesn't have a cautious bone in his body, and if he does something and hurts himself, he'll be back doing the same thing again a few minutes later, sigh. Other friends can sit around and chat at the play groups we go to, I'm far from being able to do that at the moment.
He has very little spoken language at the moment (the HV is aware) but understands a lot and will follow instructions when he feels inclined to.
Tantrums started a little while ago and are getting more spectacular, but I just ignore them and am coping with them ok I think. They are always caused by him being stopped doing something he want to i.e. crayons taken off him because he's persisted in eating them!
He's been hitting and now biting me and DH for a while, but always with a smile, so not out of frustration as you might expect.
He's my first, and we've spent lots of time with friends and other children since he was tiny. He also goes to nursery several times a week. So he's very used to being around other babies / toddlers.
So, he's a handful, but the hardest thing I'm finding to deal with is his behaviour towards other children. He'll play alongside others quite happily most of the time, but can for no reason just hit out at another child. If someone else has something he wants, he will grab them, then prise the object out of their hands, or pull a child off / out of a toy (trampoline, ride on etc). There's little boy the same age we spend a lot of time with and he regularly hits hit, launches himself at him to push him over, totally unprovoked. Luckily his mum is a good friend and is extremely kind about it, but I feel soooooooooo guilty. When he does it to children we don't know I'm mortified!
When he does this, I'll always say "You can't do that, you've hurt xxxx, we need to say sorry" then remove him from the other child, fuss over them and ignore DS for a very short time then try and redirect him to another activity. I'm not sure what else I can do.
I very much want to follow a positive disciple approach but find myself raising my voice at him......
This is complicated more by me being pg so he's going to have a baby sibling just as he turns two, help!