DD is 3 in September and has always been pretty mild mannered. She has tantrums sometimes as you'd expect for a toddler, can be naughty at times like throwing food on the floor if she doesn't want to eat it etc, but none of this is regular. She's responded well to 1, 2, 3, naughty step since she was about 2.5 and rarely ends up on the step as she usually manages to calm down/stop the behaviour before we get to 3.
Recently though she has started pushing other children when she doesn't immediately get her way. We've talked about it and she knows it's not nice, she knows being pushed hurts (or can hurt), she knows it's not allowed etc. We are trying to be really consistent with the 123step system and she is good about apologising afterwards-sometimes off her own bat and sometimes because she's told to.
But how do I stop her?! Today she pushed the DD of a friend and this little girl isn't even 2 yet. She fell over against a stone step and hurt her leg. I was mortified! Friend was v nice about it but I feel like the talking about it/punishment system we've got going isn't working because she keeps doing it...any ideas?
She goes to nursery once a week and is with me the rest of the time. I am 37 weeks pregnant and as it's started in the last few weeks I'm wondering whether it's because she feels out of control about the new baby and so is lashing out? If that's it, should we just keep doing what we're doing and hope it stops once the baby's here and she hopefully feels more secure? Argh.