boy behaviour at 22mths as opposed to girl

[hermykne]

dd was first, a dream - u could leave her playing happily, etc etc.
ds is different - and yesterday was the biscuit when he yanked the cord from my bedside light and pulled it off. he just goes on doing naughty things but smiles at you whilst u tell him its bold or not to do it.
today he got hte hose and was playing with it where i said he could but then came over to the doors and sprayed the floor inside???!!!!!

i suoppose its noraml boy stuff but how do other boy mums survuve this phase
plus dd gets really cross with him which sets that parenting nightmare off too.

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I don't really know if it's a boy thing or not, hermykne - but just remember, it's a phase, he'll grow out of it! How is he anyway - is he still a big boy and a big eater? DS3 was a big baby but he's quite a slender toddler now.

hes great otherwise always in good form, and munches constantly but quite tall for his age so its going into his height not his belly, as he is slender, but the appetite amazes me.

youre right - it is a phase but its so frutrating, i was going to book him into to playschool with esme, but changed my mind!

and theinjury list keeps growing.

I wonder if it is also a first/second child thing. Ds was a fairly meek and genial toddler, no tantrums, sociably happy to go with the flow etc.
Dd is a screechy, assertive, stripping, bolting, tumbling, disrespectful little body. Bold is a very good word.
Poor old ds turns pale when she appears at his bedroom door and announces "I PLAY with you".

yeah marina maybe thats true too.

DS is going through that phase.

ATM it's shopping that's my nightmare. I went to the local minimarket for 5 things and he was on the loose rather than in his buggy, bad mistake, it was like supermarket sweep.

I shoudl ahve learned my lesson but he got out of his buggy in town to walk yesterday, I said he could if he promised not to touch and walked by teh buggy, so he ran straight off into teh china department and picked up a cystal glass out of a box..

Aaagh...

All I hear is "me do it", "me have it"

The only strategy I have come up with is is to involve him as much as possible in what I'm doing and make him feel like he's helping, then try & ignore it when his attempts to help get too messy or destructive.

I will be watching this thread with great interest! God, I hope it's a boy thing. DS (27mnths) has been driving me up the wall since he was 21mnths. Have spent all day pulling ds off dd. Hoping and praying that dd (6mnths) is going to be a calm, obedient, genteel child. Think I would land up in a mental institute with 2 like ds.

frayedknot
thats a good strategy re invovlment, i suppose that focuses the brain and helps their concentration too.
i cant ds shopping anymore, and i used to be able to but he just wont sit in the trolley.

but he will stay in his buggy if its more important shopping for me! thou

Hey, don't you have a hosepipe ban? If not, that is so not fair.

uwila i dont! and i was thinking of all those who do while i happily handed it to him to occupy himself for all of 15mins!!