Help!! My lovely LG who is 28 months with quite good language skills has recently started hitting. It started with the cat and now regularly will scratch, whack or pull my husband's (lovely) beard. She doesn't do it to me. In the last couple of weeks she has started doing this at play groups and rhyme times almost automatically to other children. Sometimes you can see why (they have a rattle she wants to put away after rhyme time) but other times she will just walk over to normally a younger a child and just whack them in the head. Today she pulled a little boys hair out of the blue. He wasn't doing anything obviously annoying. It normally is not aggressive and is never in a rage or out of control. We are both very calm parents and we never shout or hit at home. We have tried a few things but I'm getting really upset that it seems to be ramping up. Threee weeks ago she rarely did it and now she's doing it about three or more times per play session. Is this normal? She is our first and only so haven't been through this before. Any tips?? She is normally such a funny and clever little girl but she is getting a bad name with other mums now 