Have just spent a lovely week away with dh and dd, who is 22 months. Apart from one huge blazing row over how to deal with her behaviour - to me, typical annoying toddler behaviour that can be dealt with by patience, ignoring where possible, getting down to her level saying "No, we keep hold of things and don't throw them at people because it's not nice" etc etc. His way, as she was testing his patience, is to say the 'No' but give her a tap on the hand. She's a lovely little thing - confident, smiley and yes, pretty lively at times, and I am naturally more easy going than dh, but he reckons I'm being too soft with her (she has had serious tellings off from me a handful of times, such as when she ran out almost onto the road at full speed when I lost hold of her reins once), but the tapping on the hand thing I just don't see necessary and it's really got my back up! (Btw it is only a tap and I don't believe for one minute that he'd hurt her, but all the same).
What does anyone else think?