Head butting in 13 mo.

[hermionestranger]

Ds2 us a head butter. If He doesn't get his own way he headbutts the floor/me/chair/dog whatever is nearest. He is 13 moths old and been doing this for a couple of months. It's awful and I'm worried he's going to hurt himself. He gets awfully stroppy about teeny things like me saying no ds2 I need to peel this orange you have grabbed out of the fridge or ds2 you need to give mummy Ds1's Lego before you gobble it up or no ds2 you need to go in your car seat so we can drive to get ds1 from school. Repeat.

Help!

Hi my dd was the same at that age and used to headbutt us or the ground and i was pretty worried too but got advice from some other mums and the health visitor too and they said she would grow out of it as she grww up coz its done out of frustration as they dont know how to communicate fully yet. she has grown out of it though shes now 2 and a half andwe get the occasional butt if shes in a mood. Hope this reassures u a bit. seashelles.

My 13 month old DS2 is the same hermione.
Like seashelles said I think it is frustration. He does it for exactly the same reasons your DS does. Although it is worrying I think it looks worse than it is, I am amazed at how loud it can sound when his little head seems to suffer little dammage.
Let's hope our little butters grow out of it soon.

Yes one of mine did too

I just moved them to the carpet (lots of hard floors) and let him get on with it

It's a phase and will pass; give it as little attention as you can, swan by, make a cup of tea. Divert and distract if you are in the mood

My daughter used to do this, i had wooden floors and the sound was terrible. my health visitor assured me she was not hurting herself, and to ignore it. It all stopped, however when we visited friends who had a tiled kitchen floor and she hit her head onto that....ow!never did it again!!

We have stone floor in the kitchen so he knows that hurts and crawls off to the carpet first. I do ignore him except when heads to the oven! thanks all.

My dd did this at around 18 months - it really worried me but I found that it was quite common and think it is probably caused by frustration. She does it less frequently now - only when really, really cross :)