My toddler isn't two until June so he's still very young. He understands a lot of what I say but not very verbal himself so when he does anything "naughty" I find it hard to discipline him to let him know what he's done is wrong?
There's really only two things he does that wind me up to the point I want to shout and that's because he's blatantly doing it on purpose because he knows it's wrong. They are tipping his bowl upside down on the floor and emptying his food out whether he's finished eating or not and similarly pouring his drink over whatever's closest and if nothing is good enough near him over himself. They probably don't sound like much but over and over and over and over again is getting a bit beyond a joke every day. I show him what he's done tell him how very naughty it is and take away whatever he's got to hand as a punishment. But now just as he's done it he shouts "mammy naughty" laughing and runs into the other room!
My mother has told me not to react at all to it as that's why he's doing it, if he doesn't get a good enough reaction it soon won't be worth doing. What do you guys think?