Neep help with an aggressive 2.5 year old please

[monkeytrousers]

I've been settling DS into nursery, only one half day a week at the mo, but his turning a corner there seems to have set him off on another spiral of agression when at home, or this morning, at toddler group.

I know it's probably unartiiculated abger or confusion at all the changes but how do I curb it without just resorting to telling him off all the time. Or is that the only way? Is it a phase he'll grow out of?

it's only me then?

bloody hell, anyone there?

Unarticulated you say - how's his speech? It is really common for children this age to be physical because they cannot express themselves any other way.
It is a phase, almost all children grow out of it.
Removing the culprit, making a big fuss of the injured party, being prepared to say No a lot (no way round that alas), diversion - works still at this age with toy sharing issues, all work. He is too young for a time-out place per se IMO but removing them and keeping them under your supervision does work. It is tiring monkeytrousers

My little brother was like this and it was due to his speech difficulties, agree with Marina.

Marina, I agree about the speech delay scenario - my DS had some settling-in "issues" when he first started Nursery and a lot of this stemmed from the fact that his speech was way behind his classmates. His frustrations led to him pushing a few kids around and being generally disruptive in the classroom which was quite upsetting. However, his speech is slowly but surely starting to develop (we're on the list for speech therapy as well) and his behaviour has improved immensely. I picked him up today to be told that he'd been an "angel"...that meant the world to me.

We had a very exuberantly physical little boy in dd's nursery group and he has totally outgrown his full-on physicality since he turned three and a half. I think he did have some speech therapy. You could sense the frustration, poor little chap

Thanks all. He's been an angel today actually, think yesterday was the zenith of naughtiness and he seems to be calming down now. I've decided if he throws anything I'm just going to take it off him without a word; really don't enjoy shouting at all and it's worked well so far. I'm letting him nap in the afternoons again which seems to be helping too.