Help - 19 month old started hitting!

[LauraGas]

My 19month old DS has just starting hitting if he doesn't get his own way. If we tell him "no" he just hits us. He's a lovely little boy in every other way (very loving) but I'm terrified he'll end up like one of the kids you see on "supernanny". At the moment if he hits, we pick him up, take him into another room and tell him that what he's done is naughty but often he just hits again. We've not smacked him as I don't think in this case we can tell him not to hit if we've hit him. If he's having a tantrum he'll also hit the wall/chair/anything that's near by. Does anyone else have experience of this and what do you do?

when ds is having a full on tantrum he hits out but i tend to ignore this as he is so out of control with a big tantrum that he just is not aware of what he is doing. He does hit sometimes when he wants something but we have done a few time outs with him and for us it did seem to work.... you need to get it right though and is worth reading some research on how to do time out properly first. To be honest although he might hit me he has never hit another child.... just seems to be 'authority figures' he hits at the moment!! He has tried dragging a child out of the play group peddle car by the hair though! 'blush'

My Ds went through a phase of this and still does occassionally (he's 21mo), we just ignored it and slowly he stopped.
It is sometimes hard to ignore, but it worked for us. It also helped trying to divert his attention when he was doing it, so basically ignore the fact he;s doing it and when he realises that he wont get a reaction from you, its not as fun to do it.

HTH

Thanks for the advice - glad to know it's not just my DC!

My 11 mth old has been hitting me & his dad in the face for a good few weeks which we've tried to say NO! & then ignore but now he's hitting out at other children both with hands & toys. He seems not to be doing with any malice but it's VERY embarressing.
He's lovely in every other way.
Any ideas with a child so young ?

my ds went throught his phase whenever he did it i move him away from me and ignored him

then i would go play with him on floor and if he did it again i would mave again

eventually he realised he got my attention from not doing it and he never did do it again even now 2.7 has never tried to hit me