Dd always banging her head

[sarahsausage]

For a few months my dd2 has been hitting the back of her head (not hard) on the door or headboard or whatever she is sat in front of.

But now, she has started banging the front of her head on the floor very hard when she doesn't get her own way. Its not just the floor either, its the wall, the tv, the highchair, the sofa, and occasionally my legs. She'll just bang it, 2 or 3 times and really hard too.

She is 1 on 29th Nov.

How do i deal with this? I'm thinking if i make a big fuss of it she'll keep doing it? Help!

DS used to do this, just ignore it, she will stop doing it when she realises it has no effect.

Oh its a nightmare. DS3 is currently in his cot with a bruised forehead he hit it so hard this morning (he'll be 2 nevxt month). his eldest brother is severely autistic and he copies him- in fact both ds2 and ds3 have copied him- but ds2 never did it hard enough to hurt.

Originally I found walking away and ignoring it worked well, now it dooesn't, although telling him off can sometimes. His sppeech is way behind his understanding at the moment and I think when he can whinge and moan using language he;ll swop to that rather than the paddies.

Also in ds3's case I think when he really bashes it it can be dietary related. Am picking my brains trying to think what he has eaten recently and he is bad with it today.

The silly thing is he does it then says "hurt head".

My dd used to do headbanging with great force over several months between the age of 11 and 18mths- it was awful to watch as she really hurt herself. Our HV suggested giving her a pillow to bang against but she was too small to understand that so I had to do my best to ignore it (v hard esp as, like jimjams2 ds, she'd come crying that her head hurt afterwards!). It was always triggered by frustration and so as soon as her language skills started to develp it wore off.
I hope things improve for your dd soon.

Thanks for your replies.

Will just try to ignore it but easier said than done!