My toddler is often rude when we arrive at his grandparents houses. He will scream or shout “no” or “stop it” at grandma and grandpa if they try to speak to him when he comes into their house. This happens with both maternal and paternal grandparents. He knows them quite well - sees paternal grandparents at least once a week and maternal grandparents maybe once every two weeks. He will be excited about seeing them but then still do this on arrival. We’ve tried to “coach” him eg say Happy New Year to grandma when you see her to no avail. He does warm up and then has a good time and is often sad to leave them. I don’t get what is going on 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
if they visit us this doesn’t happen.
can anyway advise what to do about this or even does anyone have any insight about why he might be behaving like this.
I’ve wondered if he doesn’t like being the centre of attention on arrival but am not really sure.
he might do this with other elderly relatives too a bit bit but not with younger relatives.