I'm sure m 16month old is being naughty on purpose today!!!!!!!!!!!

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I put her in the high chair with a mini tub of hummos and bread stick while I was washing up, when I turned around she was completely covered in hommus.

Then at dinner time kept banging anything she could get her hands on on the table, and when I told her to stop she smiled and coutinued. Then started laughing.

Behaviour / development :2yo ds deliberately does 'naughty' things. Why and what to do??!!!

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I have a 16 month old (born 28th June 2007) boy who definitely enjoys winding me up... if I say "No!" he falls about laughing! The biggest laugh of all tho, is if he pulls my hair and I say Ouch!

ooooh, I don't think they're being intentionally naughty. Just exploring and when you tell her to stop, she thinks it's a game.
I tend to remove any food my 17 month old DD doesn't want to eat and if she starts banging on table, I guess she just wants to get down off the high chair as she's all done eating.

ooooh i think they are definitely capable of being deliberately naughty by that age. but that doesnt mean she was in that particular situation iyswim. my dd2 (just 17 months) prepares to do something naughty then waits until she has my attention before preceding to do it! eg climbing on something she knows she isnt allowed to do, taking a toy her sister is currently playing with etc. it is hard to know when it starts and when it is happening some of the tmie but they definitely are capable of it imhv

My 17 month old thinks it's the funniest thing in the world when I say "no". But it really isn't naughty - I think he's just interested in what will happen if he carries on doing it. I'm pretty firm - he gets taken away from the scene of the crime sharpish - but I wouldn't say he was being naughty.

Oh not 'naughty' to upset you. just exploring the world, and realising that she gets a big reaction.

If you start thinking naughty this age you are setting up for years of battles. Instead just be really boring,

so quietly say no dont pull/hit....

then ignore her

DONT rush over saying what do you think you are up to. Oh my god, what a mess, lets wipe you up, stop rubbing it more.,,,then teling everyone about it (you get the picture)

I someitmes find it hard not to laugh though!

My 18 month old went into the fridge, got out a petit filous, opened it and attempted to feed himself... without a spoon... all over the fridge, floor, himself.... not once but TWICE!!!!

ooooooooooh, nowwearefour, I think your dd2 might be exploring what kind of a reaction she'll get out of you when she starts climbing so waits for your full attention before doing it. And, she might even enjoy all the attention you give her once she does it, so she does it again and again and again .
IMHO not naughty but curious and bright.

yes i am sure you are right feelinglucky. guess it all comes down to what your definition of naughty is.....

now she has tipped over the bowl of water i use for her bum, she never normally does this, she has done it once before but has scince learnt not to do it.