Hello all, I just wanted to know if anyone has any advice. My DS is 2 in September, I love him more than anything but recently he’s really been trying my patience. I know that most kids his age do that on one level or another, but it seems to be all the time and nothing stops it. And if I try to tell him off in anyway he just screams and flings himself at the floor regardless of what’s around him or if it will hurt.
My biggest problem is his climbing currently. He does also have a tendency to throw all his toys on the floor and not play with any of them and to throw things down the stairs - both of which not great but at least they are not dangerous.
The climbing however worries me. I can’t leave him alone for a second, as soon as I leave a room he will climb on things. So far today he has climbed on his chest of draws once (and fallen off hurting himself), he’s climbed into the dining table three times (sternly told off after each time), he’s gotten on top of the toilet and perched on the tank twice - but the one that has scared the living crap out of me and spurred on a massive melt down was when he decided to try and throw himself out of my bedroom window. Usually I have the window open with my heavy blind down over it or my blind up and the window closed - today I forgot to close it which is incredibly rare. I went into his room to make his bed and literally in the ten seconds that took he had climbed on my bed side table, shimmied across the windowsill and was right next to the fully open window. I’m pretty sure my heart stopped and I grabbed him, put him on the bed and just broke down.
I don’t know how to stop it, it’s constant and nothing seems to work. I know at his age understanding is limited but he knows enough to only do it when I go out of a room - and he obviously has it in mind because it’s always a matter of seconds.
He also has a habit of running around all over the place when we are out, I never thought I would use reins because I’ve never liked the idea of them but I had to get some as he just won’t listen and wrestle himself away.
When your sat down with him he’s the sweetest little boy, he absolutely loves cuddles and will seek them out regularly and will ask for you to read him books etc. But he just has this full on wild streak that needs to stop.
Thank you if you read this far! Please let me know if you managed to get out of a similar phase