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Nearly two year old scratching faces

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mummag · 22/04/2009 13:13

hi my son who is nearly two has developed a very scary defence tactic. His good friend has a thing about pushing him, and usually he takes it and doesnt react. However yesterday he came out fighting, he was all over this boys face and rea;;y aggressive and angry Obviously i was totally in there and stopping him and making him say sorry (which he did) and kiss him (which he did), but as soon as the boy touched him or anything he was playing with he was super aggressive and at the kids face. This is not a dig at my friends boy who is smashing, and i think my son initiated the pushing a while back........... but this new form of fighting is scary. I just dont want him to hurt anyone. It wasnt helped by some other mums telling their kids to stay away from him as if he was doing it to everyone.... help me to know how to deal with this please. He is my third child, and whilst i have had a biter with my first, my daughter was very gentle so am bit out of practice and feel really worried there might be somat wrong with him.

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bubblagirl · 23/04/2009 10:29

the best you can do is remove him from the situation to calm down sit him somewhere quiet and then when calm let him play again

i too would have told my ds to stay away not to be mean to your ds but to allow him to calm down too many people around him may have made him more agitated so don't take that personally

all you can do is say no pushing to the other boy no scratching to your ds and remove him

PoorLittleEgg · 23/04/2009 10:30

make a fuss of victim

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