Ideas to discipline a 4th child who is just turned 2

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Hi all , looking forward to ideas to discipline my little boy who in the last week or changed into a naughty/unruly child. It crossed my mind that he may be poorly but he is fine sleeping so may be at the end of getting his last teeth but he is definitely enjoying testing the boundaries.
He talks so understand most things and unfortunately must have learnt bad habits and attitude from older sibilings making him a not so cute toddler at times.
Any tips appreciated

What sort of bad behaviour are we talking about?

To be honest, if all his older siblings are naughty and getting away with it, you're not going to have any luck teaching him any differently until you've dealt with them. I'd actually focus on discipline for your big kids, you'd be surprised how much trickles down.

Thanks, the older ones are being dealt with and disciplined so that is not an issue but things like throwing toys at me then laughing or expecting his siblings to do something and when they don't do it, he will scream and hurt them and I can remove him from the situation but I can't remember if naughty step are suggested at this age or not.

My son is 2.5. If he does anything like hit, pull hair etc I hold his wrists to stop him, look him in the eye and say we do not hit. We need to use soft hands. Show me your soft hands. Then I overly praise him when he does something soft like stroke my arm. If he does it again, I will give him a warning like "if you hit again then I will take.. whatever it is he is playing with". Then if I take it I say I am taking this because you have not used soft hands. Then I will divert his attention to something else. Good luck... Its really hard and draining!

Didn't mean to make that bit bold!

No, that's fantastic. Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks MsChatterbox. Will give that a try

My DD is soon to turn 2 and if she does something I don't want her to do with an object, like PP I will give a warning first. I get down to her level right by her and look her firmly in the eye and say something like "oh no, we don't do x, because...y. I know it was an accident/you didn't know etc, but if you do it one more time I will take it off you. So it is your choice." type thing. Then if she does it again I take it off her and she usually cries so I will get back down to her level and say like "I know you are upset, and it can be upsetting when you can't do what you want. But mummy told you that if you did x it would get taken off you, and you chose to do it, so mummy had to take it off you. Next time, don't do x and you can keep it, and then you won't have it taken off you and won't get upset". Or something. I'm sure she doesn't understand every word but we don't have many drawn out tantrums over this kind of thing and most of the time she will comply after the warning. Worth a try?