Would anyone mind detailing their LO's general behaviour at 17 months?

[y3dmm]

thank-you!

DS at 19 months also has a bear (BB) that goes everywhere with him, tastes all his food and gets big cuddles and kisses complete with "awwwww" noises.

He is clingy, and wants me to go everywhere with him, puts out his hand with a "come" or "hand".

He's whingey when he wants something but if you ask him to ask nicely he'll say "pees" with a cheeky smile.

He has a face he pulls when he says "sore". He adores the cat, who was injured recently, and he kept pointing and saying "sore" then giving him a big kiss. Now the cat has recovered, he's back to chasing him around all day shouting "miaow".

He'll want to get up on the sofa and as soon as he's up, he'll get down...then ask to get up again.

As my dad says he is not "biddable". Constant negotiations are needed to get him to do almost anything.

Hates nappy changes, hair washes and toothbrushing. Loves motorbikes, helicoptors and books (especially about helicoptors and motorbikes...)

He's hilarious.

Ds is 2yrs old, 18th April was his b'day.

He whinges, moans, hits, slaps, pulls dd's hair at any opportunity

He pulls everything out of cupboards/drawers/everything has to be opened, tried out.

He climbs a LOT, falls over a fair bit too although it's getting less

He runs everywhere..

He loves cuddles/kisses won't sit still long enough to look at a book

He flooded the bathroom the other morning, went downstairs & i woke to the sound of a tap running fast...ran down to find the bathroom like a paddling pool! No major damage done!!!

He adores animals, mainly cats/dogs, likes to chase the pigeons in the street

He has slow speech & can say ; Hiya, Yah, Mama, Mum, No, Ta. (This is being dealt with)

He eats very well & is very tall for his age (in 3-4 clothes recently)

He flushes everything down the toilet
He turns the taps on
He climbs everything
He drags chairs so he can climb onto worksurfaces etc
He pulls up all the plants in the garden
He won't eat sandwiches unless they've been lying on the lawn for 2 days for the birds to eat
He smears food everywhere
He hides the pegs
He throws things
He shouts for his dinner then shovels it in before throwing the rest on the floor and demanding to get up.

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Yep this is my ds too!!!

16 month old DD

She sleeps in between us and pinches me all night
She point blank refuses to put on a nappy or wear any clothes. Dressing and nappy changing is achieved by distraction if we're lucky, or begging, crying and shouting (me) if we're not
She takes everything out of every single cupbard in the house and throws it on the floor
She refuses to be fed, but is not quite capable of feeding herself, so mealtimes are very slow, very messy and not much gets in but the floors get covered
She screams in her car seat, constantly
She loves her milk but spends most of the time squeezing it onto the floor, computer, back seat etc
She won't let me leave the room but doesn't want anything to do with me
She refuses to sit in a high chair, ordinary chair, on anyone's knee when in a restaurant
She climbs on the sofa and bounces up and down holding onto the arm
She wears my pants round her neck
She wants me to carry her, then she wants to get down, then she wants me to carry her (ad nauseum)
She won't let us brush her teeth/hair, wipe her face
She screams blue murder when anything is taken off her, such as glasses, mugs, knives, scissors etc

Sometimes I wish I hadn't had her, till she comes over to me with her lips pursed, for a big kiss

What is it with the pinching?! DS gouges out my cuticles given half the chance. I think it's his way of showing affection - he picks at his bear (tiny teddy) too.

And he eats stale bread off the lawn.

This thread is great - it makes me feel like it's not just my crap parenting, and reading about all your gorgeous children reminds me of how lovely toddlers are. And to those who are imminently due with number 2 - DS was born when DD was 18 months. Once the first six months over it gets better and better!

I dont know. With dd it started out as stroking my arm, then gentle pinches as she got older and now it's bloody torture

16 months old here, and I explained it to a childless friend the other day as like being in charge of a chimpanzee.

We have a pair of BBQ tongs in the bathroom for the specific purpose of fishing things out of the loo.

She will climb on anything. I made the mistake of taking a call at the park the other day and turned around to find she'd climbed to the top of the big slide and was swinging back and forth on the top bars like a luge competitor about to launch out of the gate. We live on the third floor and have had fixed security screens fitted.

She has no sense whatsoever. I sometimes let her walk along the sea wall at low tide, holding her arm very tightly as it's an eight-foot drop to the (very shallow) water. She cannot understand why I won't let her do it while pushing her doll's pram along the wall.

Nothing is more exciting than a dog. Except Daddy. Maybe.

Blimey, your 16 month old is allowed a doll's pram out in the real world?? That's brave. DD has one which she loves but it doesn't leave the house at the mo. It's all I need to be pushing a buggy, grabbing her hood holding her hand and wheeling a miniature M&P Pliko (she hasn't got that but it sounded better!)

Ah, but she wears reins so has only the illusion of being in control herself.

Sometimes she looks very like me, setting off with her little handbag swinging from one handle and her little brolly hanging from the other, but then she does something like release the pram at the top of a boat slipway and shout "WHEEEE!!!" as it careers down to the water and I think god, I hope passers-by don't think she got that from me.

I can't get mine into reins. She knoooooows y'know . I am thinking of trying one of those backpacks but she'll see through that as well . Little beggar!

DS is an explorer, he loves to see new places/things/people, he is also a little sunshiney boy (most of the time!) and quite sociable.
I have to watch him carefully at toddler groups etc as he will snatch whatever he wants, push/pull much bigger kids out of his way (including pushing them in the face..), he obviously hasn't yet grasped that it can hurt them, it's not nastiness!
LOVES to act like a grown-up and copy whatever we do - cleaning, cooking, loves to sit on "big chairs" and drink from proper cups, copies me doing puzzles in the newspaper...
Has a very strong independent streak, and hates being helped/held on to - e.g. we are not allowed to hold him when he sits on his rocking horse even though it's quite high, or to visibly touch the horse, or he protests!
Is starting to communicate with me quite well although he hardly has any words other people would understand - and he understands lots of what we say, and can go fetch things I ask him for etc
Eats like a horse
Loves going for walks in his back carrier
Is a "yoyo" - he will happily run off from me to investigate something, but always come back after a short while to make sure I'm still around, before beetling off again
Doesn't climb yet - phew....
Loves books, but has v short attention span so only manages a page or two at a time - also loves buses, ride-on toys, play houses and kitchens. Hates sitting quietly!
Is quite sweet and loves to "feed" me milk from his cup or to stick his cuddly cow in my face for a snuggle (he means well but I wish he didn't cos it usually smells despite regular washing!)

I have to kiss numberous little dolls and, in fact, everything. She has just learnt to kiss and she snogs everything in sight, which is sweet I guess but she's carry an awful lot of snot at the moment

numberous?

Good word though...

DD2 is like all these lively toddlers. DD1 was exactly the same (and is still a livewire aged 7).

DD2 likes to store house keys in DH's shoes.
Likes to put the teabag into the mug (will cry if we forget).
Has copied DD1 so now goes under the stairgate up the stairs.
Sits on any book/DVD/CD of big sister's (preferably without a nappy on) and giggles when the howling starts.
Pulls our hair experimentally from behind and giggles.
Puts on her own nappy/trousers always the wrong way round, always with both feet in the same leg.
Likes to 'whisper' like we do by getting v close to your ear and going 'mnermnermner'.
Grabs you from behind and plants a big snotty kiss on you.
Likes spiders. Waves hello at them. They are her friends. They climb up stairs too.

DD2 at same age (19 months) was caught slurping loo water with a spoon.

soooooooooooo, would anyone consider getting pregnany now with a 17 month old????

They would be 2.6 by the baby's due date......

Slightly concerned about health and safety!

even worse than that y3dmm, I am expecting my third in 3 weeks (why isn't there a scared emoticon???)

he wasn't this bad when we decided another baby was a good idea!!!! lol

DD is 18 months and

loves pulling anything out of any drawer/cupboard/cabinet/bin/handbag
Loves turning taps on and laughs hysterically when water is spraying everywhere
Wants to feel every book she reads with her feet, convinced they all have tickly touchy feely bits
Likes to pull open the freezer, get out the ice cream and share it with the dog
Loves hiding things and saying 'whereisit?''over and over again whilst we search madly everywhere for it
Give us sweet little open mouthed kisses if we point to our cheeks of lips and say 'just there'
Walk around with an old iPod to her ear babbling away into it pretending its a mobile phone
Loves kissing her dolly or the dog whilst saying 'Arrrr'
Stands in front of the fruit bowl, for what feels like eternity, pointing at it saying 'rana' over and over - she would snack all day long if I let her
Loves to escape upstairs - I swear she has a built in radar for when we forget to leave the gate open

This is 21 month old ds2, all of it. I am so relieved as I was just thinking today, is this level of monkeying around and boisterous actually normal? (ds1 has mild SN so am a bit wary of relying on him as a benchmark) And it is, hooray!!

ds2 is into everything. He likes to escape, to dance, to jump (cute little hops which end with him falling on his bum) to say hello mummy/daddy/dog/ds1 and bye bye everytime he enters or leaves a room, he likes to have hugs "ugg" and kisses, to read his favourite books over and over, to find and bring the biscuit tin wherever it's been hidden, and to shriek with excitement, frustration and just for the hell of it. He chatters away constantly but his first words were all food related.

Dh says he does everything very quickly and very loudly. He definitely isn't one of those calm toddlers you see..

and lol at the description of being in charge of a chimpanzee. That is exactly what it's like at this age!

I have a 14mth age gap between ds & dd.

dd dob is 18-02-06
ds dob is 18-04-07

My 18 month old is a real 'people person.' She loves everyone, and would happily walk off with anyone who smiles at her. she literally grabs the hand of total strangers in the park!

She's very busy, in her playgroup she's always running around while most of the others sit by their mums. She'll sit on other mums knees, and hugs and kisses the other chlidren, even if they are frozen in fear. She's always first up when there's a new box of toys brought out.

She loves to balance on things, especially when watching telly. She'll put one foot on a wooden block and one knee on on anything with wheels, or lean on the coffee table with her legs up behind her. Anything precarious really.

She loves singing, and today made up a song about flowers (Well, the lyrics went "flower, flower, flower, flower (repeat)). Other top hits include The Mamma mamma Dada dada song, and a beautiful harmony number performed with me, her mum.

She's not into dolls or teddie's really, but loves shoes hats and bags. She'll hoist my handbag over her shoulders and shout 'byeeeee, see you' and wave as she walks off. She knows she's not supposed to play with the remote control, so will hover over it with an evil grin for a few minutes before slowly going in for a quick press of a button. Before you know it she has it in her mouth, it's covered in drool, or she's talking into it like it's a phone. And then we wonder why the tv's acting up.

The only annoying thing is the constant "eh, eh, eh" when she wants something, and the crying in frustration when we can't figure it out/won't let her have it anyway. That and the total exhaustion that hits me like a wave once she's gone to bed. Phew.

Dylan Moran described toddlers as being like drunk midgets. That's exactly what my dd's like!

16 of us in our antenatal group and 14 are "calm" toddlers, mine isn't!

DD is 16 months, she is incredibly active. We can not visit people without stairgates as she has no fear and will happily wander off in anyones house to climb the stairs and root around in their cupboards.

She is constantly hungry and removes biscuits from the bags of other mums shouting "mum-eeeeeeeeeee" at the top of her voice.

She takes toys off other children and gets cross if they try to play the same game with her. She is forthright and very very loud. She will hide behind bars and peer out shouting "hiya" at the top of her voice, over and over and over .......

I love her to bits but the only time I relax is at work or when she is asleep. I am ordering a calm one for next time round.

Also, we are considering baby no2.

A friend of mine is due in 4 weeks and her little boy is same age as my DD so will see how she gets on!

My 20 month old DD is becoming a little monster, either that or i'm not coping too well?!

Tantrums are very reoccurring whenever he can't get his own way or out of fustration as we struggle to always understand what he wants but don't always want to be giving him what he wants all the time!! I struggle out in public with the tantrums as he decides to fall on the floor and bang his head repeatedly, i do struggle to be assertive in public too? He has recently discovered the bin and watches me put things in...I caught him taking a half eaten babybel out of it the other day who knows what else has been eaten!!!

DD is generally a fun, loving child but with the tantrums getting worse i do sometimes feel a little detached and a bit lost!!! Panicking a little about what to do to keep him entertained as he seems uninterested with most things?!!

It's all fun and games hey?!

I also feel that I am not coping very well. I have posted a thread in this area but am even considering returning to work full time to make me feel better.