Toddler showing off

[Tiredmummy224]

Hi all
So I'm wondering what you do when your toddler seems to be naughty to show off?
He's 3.5 and for example when I'm home with him he's mostly fine but when his dad's home he starts doing everything to get on his nerves. For example I never have problem with him poking TV etc yet when his dad's home and tells him go move away from TV he runs for it and starts poking it
The more his dad gets annoyed with him or removes him the more he runs back for it to poke it and as you probably can guess drives my partner mad
I don't know if its because he tends to tell him off for more things so he purposely does them to get the rise out or something else
Either way anything to get him to stop? Like I said earlier he doesn't do those things when I'm home only with him so don't know what comes over him when his dad's back from work

He hasn’t seen his dad all day because he’s at work then, when his dad comes home he’s watching tv.

The only attention he can get from his dad (albeit negative attention) is when he pushes buttons on the tv. His dad, despite being at work all day, needs to get on the floor and play cars for an hour (or two!) with his son rather than sitting watching tv. By pushing the buttons to get the rise out of him he is just begging for some attention from him.

I agree with MrsMcCarthy - he's not showing off, he wants his daddy to play with him.

I would say it's attention but only last week partner went back work until then he was home with us due to the covid-19 situation so he spent plenty of time with the kids
And partner always plays a bit with toddler after dinner and then every night gets toddler ready for bed and sometimes gets him ready in the morning if he's going work for later shift
In our house it works usually I do anything baby might need and he deals with anything toddler might need when he's home so getting him ready bed bath snacks taking him to park with a ball on nice days or anything else
And the TV was just example as neither me nor partner really watch it (it's used mostly as a background noise through the day)
Usually around dinner time when partner gets back from work it's on paw patrol or something similar to distract kids for those minutes I'm sorting dinner out and plating up
He does it with anything he will happily play with his baby brother but start getting a bit out of control partner will tell him to calm down a bit and he will start doing it on purpose again
He saw baby brother putting some toys in his mouth as babies around that age do so then toddler started doing the same and partner told him they dont go in his mouth so then toddler went through every toy within his reach putting it in his mouth while starting at partner
And like I said earlier he's got plenty of one on one with his dad so it's not like he never spends any time with him

Seems like dad is the problem, not your toddler

He's doing it for attention and he's enjoying getting a rise, seems like his dad needs to stop reacting so strongly. So could ignore behaviour at first?

@Rubyroost

He's doing it for attention and he's enjoying getting a rise, seems like his dad needs to stop reacting so strongly. So could ignore behaviour at first?

He tries to react calmly but after being ignored so many times in a row it does start to get annoying And what about when ignoring him doesnt work? Obviously not all stuff can be ignored until he decides to stop it

Time out?

I mean toddlers are a pita sometimes aren't they as all they want is your attention, I guess if ignoring doesn't work some time out in bedroom 1 min for every year if their life?