Stopping the throwing....

[GemmaB78]

How do we stop our 22 month throwing everything? Toys. Food. Gravel in the garden. Anything he can get his hands on. I'm sick of wiping food off the walls. If we tell him no, he either ignores us or laughs at us. I'd take his food away but then he won't eat anything. He apparently doesn't do this at nursery; just at home.

Is this normal toddler behaviour or are we doing something wrong?

Snap. Exactly the same here. Apparently it is to do with developing 'schemas ' (google it) and therefore a 'good' thing. Our 22month old has been doing this for literally months. We've tried everything including time out etc but when he's in that mood, nothing will stop him. I do think we are beginning to see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel now though.

I understand about schema and why he's doing it. I just want him to bloody stop!

The idea of schemas has bern discredited, last i heard.

We had this problem and we used the naughty step (just for this, for other behaviour we just said no/distracted but we really needed him to stop throwing as other children/we were getting hurt). He was 18 mo old. So each time he threw he got told "no throwing" and 1 min on the step. After 3 or 4 repetitions he would then stop if you caught him in time and said "no throwing", and after 5 or 6 he stopped doing it all together.

Did the same thing a couple of years later with ds2 for hair pulling. Draconian but it worked.