Please Help me!!!

[LauLau15]

hello all,
i would like some advice on a nearly 2 year old little boy who normally is cute, loves to play and have a cuddle etc,
When he's poorly (he currently has a little cold) he becomes rather aggressive towards me and his grandmother. He hits, smacks, pushes me out the way etc.
He even bit me the other day, which i was horrifed by!
I have taken a firm hand with him and ignored the mood swings, he refuses to get in the car and makes a big scene.
Is it normal for a child when ill to be aggressive, i sometimes feel like i am a bad parent who cant calm her child, think that he'll grow up to be one of those children whose a bully, a yob. maybe i am blowing it out of proportion!
Please help!

He won't be a yob, no.

Most kids are unbearably grumpy when ailing. You sound like you are doing the right thing as of course he can't be allowed to bite or hit even if he is poorly.

You are certainly NOT a bad parent.

Yup, perfectly normal - they feel like crap but can't express it in any other way, so they lash out.

My DS1 is 2.6 and exactly the same, he's got a cold / virus thing at the moment and has been a right old misery guts, poor soul. It's incredibly testing (particularly as I'm 8 months pregnant and have the same cold / virus myself) but you're doing the right thing by letting him know that that behaviour's not acceptable. You can't have one rule for when they're ill and one for when they're well, they don't understand the situation so you do just have to be tough with your discipline even when they're poorly (although with lots of cuddles!). He won't turn out to be a yob, don't worry, just give him firm but loving boundaries and he'll be fine.

Oh, and get some calpol down him, sharpish!

thank you both, have been using the calpol too, does help. just feel alittle helpless at times, is my first child and mostly i am a single parent as my partner works nights so not around much.
i will persist with the discipline.