Is this normal?!
We didn't seem to really have 'terrible twos', but the last few weeks my 3 and 8month old has been really pushing the boundaries. He's been hitting other children at nursery, and running into roads etc. I got tough this evening - he'd said in the morning he wanted to make popcorn and we were planning it all morning before nursery, and on the way home, but then he started really messing about while we had tea - snatching food off my plate and giggling madly etc. At first it was funny, but he KEPT ON doing it, and when I told him off he hit me. He thought this was hilarious, so I told him if he didn't sit down properly it wuold be straight to bed. He hit me again laughing, so I marched him off to bed. He kept saying he wanted to make popcorn, and I explained that I was upset too that he had chosen not to do so by deciding to mess about rather than do what I said when he was given the choice. He is now screaming in bed.
AARGH!!
He is so lovely and adorable and affetionate and funny most of the time - why does he have to ruin it all sometimes??
Do you think this could be playing up because ds2 is due in 6 weeks? He is very keen on hte idea of his baby brother turning up, but maybe this is all internalised into bad behaviour? But then I think that is daft and far too over analytical, and he is just acting his age - after all, the baby is still not actually here and hasn't changed anything yet.
And how do you all deal with wilful faffing about?? Silly things like stopping walking to run into someones front garden on the way home from nursery, or finishing a plate of food and then throwing hte plate on the floor rather than putting it on the table - nothing major, but I just don't have the patience for it. I get angry - i can feel myself seeing red when he is pissing me off - and I can be so close to just bashing him or really screaming at him. I don't do the former but do sometimes do the latter, which is just as bad - it terrifies him and I feel awful, but I just lose it.
Help!!!