Children smacking parents!!

[mumtobe2]

Does anyone have any experience with dealing with a child who smacks for no apparent reason.She is almost 2?

Hi, a bit new to this but here goes.

My eldest son (now ten) was a random smacker, often he would smack without apparent reason or even aggression, it was awful at playgroup etc.

With retrospect I think that he was merely exerting power in a way he knew he could; he knew I wouldn't hit him back and it of course got immediate attention. It was hard work but I used persistant time out (strapped in a buggy if nessecary) and eventully he related time out (which he hated) with the smacking (which he stopped). I also think with retrospect that i was an extermly unconfident Mum who was trying to find my feet and I do wonder if this may have caused him to need to act out? Guess I won't know util i can ask him when he's grown up! Hope this helps.

Jeany, thank you very much for sharing your experiences and thoughts about this matter.
We've been trying the naughty seat tactics, with no real effects. We'll try your way and fingers crossed.

we are going through this at the moment with our dd who is almost 3. beleive she copied it from another child but now we dont know what to do to stop it. it can be really embarassing when in public. found that telling her off, and taking things away from her or time out or when in public putting her in the buggy and then just ignoring her behaviour tends to stop her pretty quickly. doesnt seem to be really working that well in the long term though!

just read your name properly. are you pg? i am also pg (34 weeks)and was wondering whether the jealousy thing is starting already and the hitting is attention seeking

Thank you smiley, I'm not pg and in fact when my partner's daughter is present, her behaviour improves.

Just been through this with my dd who is 2.4 yo. I was giving her three chances to stop and then doing time out, but found it is better since I adopted a zero tolerance and put her on the stairs straight away. Each time I said, " i'm putting you on the stairs for 2 minutes because you hit me and it's not very nice/ I don't like it." Then I'd get her and remind/ask her if she knew why she was there, and say "give me a cuddle, it's much nicer than hitting me." Sometimes we'd spend 5 minutes of her getting off the stairs and me sitting her back on them, but after 2 months it has lessened considerably.

DS has started doing this (he's just 2) so interested to see the replies to this one. He hit be really hard in the face yesterday, he was angry and it bloody hurt

he did look pretty scared when I yelled at him though (was so caught out I couldn't help it)