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Toddler talking about pushing other children

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cmcv · 06/05/2015 13:09

About 2-3 months ago, my son (2 1/2) was pushed over quite badly in the park by an older kid. He talked about it a lot for days and continues to talk about it now (every 5 days or so it comes up). More recently (past 6 weeks), he has started talking a lot about pushing others. If I say "Ben is coming to play", he will say "Push Ben?", "Push Ben in the face"... basically run through a list of things he knows are wrong to discuss it with me. He has started pushing kids a bit more but not as much as he is talking about it. I have raised it with a few people who all say it is very unusual for a child to talk about pushing and a specific incident so much. Not sure at this stage whether to ignore some of this or how to respond. Has anyone come across this? Any advice would be very welcome. I am really keen to reduce the amount of talk about pushing or understand why he is talking about it. Hopefully it will then be less on his mind and he won't progress to more actual pushing

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WilsonWilsonWoman · 06/05/2015 14:26

Talk about it for goodness sake I don;t think trying to stop talk of it will help. If you talk about it he will be able to process it and move on naturally. 'No, we don't push. We don't push Ben.' 'It isn't nice to push, it hurts, makes them sad.' etc. It seems he's learning boundaries so let the discussion flow and for him to understand that pushing or hurting other people is not nice and not something to do.

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