18 month old son throwing hes toys

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Someone help me before i go insane.....lol. ..my 18 month old son is constantly throwing all hes toys over the baby gate....the fire guard.. .the whole toybox ends up thrown everywhere.im at my wits end with it.u pick them up and two seconds after there over fire guard again...over sofa....over baby gate ready for u to trip over....then hes taking all my cushions off corner sofa and throwing um all round house.i don't know how to stop him helpppppp please ...from a tired mummy :( of two kids under 2 xx

I think that's pretty normal. How about have fewer toys available to throw so easier to tidy? Rotate the toys you have out. Put the cushions away for a while assuming you mean scatter cushions.

It's perfectly normal.

Mine chucked stuff all over at that age and had a lot of fun doing it. I'd just clear it up every evening once they were in bed. It's just toys and cushions and stuff, it's not worth working yourself up about.

Save that for when they eat their first slug

It’s a normal stage of development. It’s to do with cause and effect. He is learning about how things move when they’re dropped/thrown and he’s enjoying it

If you want to reduce it, reduce the number of toys he has access to, don’t react when he does it, teach him to pick them up himself every time and put them back in their place, give him things that it doesn’t matter if he throws. And don’t get stressed about it. You being stressed doesn’t change it.

It's fun - he's playing a game. Throw things and Mummy goes and gets them and brings them back for me to have another go!

Fewer things to throw, and longer wait until they are returned. Not nearly as much fun.

Thanks everyone.no they are the proper cushions on the sofa so i need them on the sofa lol ....yes i reduced the number of toys and then hes bored n screams because hes thrown them over gate and cant reach them.i take him out to the park etc but sometimes if raining we r stuck in.so all this is normal i shouldn't worry and just ignore him and leave the toys and he will get bored of doing it?

Have a Google for "trajectory schema", it's a completely normal and very important stage of development. He'll stop doing it when he's learnt what he needs to from it, so until that happens, embrace it. Make sure he has lots of opportunities to throw, roll, move toys and objects safely - different sized balls and ramps, tubes, drainpipes to roll them down, beanbags to throw and catch, colourful scarves that float when you drop them, just as a few examples.

I agree with what @NannyR has said. Make it fun. Play throwing with him, throw things over things, under things and around things. Put the sofa cushions on the floor and let him jump onto them. If it's ever dangerous when he throws something, don't give too much attention, just pick up the toy and move it out of his reach. He will soon learn that doing the dangerous stuff isn't fun anymore. However give him plenty of opportunities to do it safely, so he can master the skill

Don’t worry. Just ignore and it will stop eventually.

DD was a bit wild at that age, to be honest I just let her get on with it unless it was dangerous. I never made a big deal. She’s lovely now aged 3 and nothing gets thrown.

Give him less stuff to chuck.

Then eventually stop giving him the toys back. He will stop chucking them.

Also ensure he helps you pick up the toys he's thrown when you are tidying up.

I did this all with my daughter.

I agree this is a normal (but annoying!) phase. Hope he outgrows it soon!

If there are thing you definitely want him to be doing (taking sofa cushions off drives me crazy as well) - say no to that every time and put them back on and if he keeps doing it them remove him from the room. Stay firm but calm, if you get upset or angry he might find it more interesting and do it again.

Re throwing things - he needs to learn when it's ok to throw things so throwing a ball outdoors is ok but might not be inside. Reduce the number of things he can throw and make a harmless game of it - a bucket or tub and a load of balled up baby socks, he can throw them in to his heart's content!

Try not to pick the toys up immediately because he'll think it's just a game. If it's doing your nut then get out into the fresh air and it won't seem so bad.

Get a cardboard box and make some small holes in it, then he can drop toys into the box.
Get him to pick the toys up, once they have all been thrown get him to help put them all back. Reward the tidying up with a "well done" a cuddle or a sticker. You could do the same for the sofa cushions, or make that a clear no, up to you.
Could you vary the room you play in? A bit of garden Time, if you have one, or moving between doing play dough or crayons at the dining table, to some water play in the bathroom (a good opportunity to clean up the bathroom), to playing with teddies in the bedroom (a good opportunity to tidy the bedroom) and then back downstairs to do some train tracks on the lounge floor or make some cup cakes in the kitchen. This can work even in tiny flats. When living in a small upstairs flat with a toddler we used to go on trips to take the recycling or post out of little one was getting a bit tricky behaviour wise.
Ideally you should be trying to get out every day, even just for a buggy walk round the block. Kids do get naughtier when they are all cooped up. Obviously if you're ill or sleep deprived a duvet day can be just what's needed, but these can be made more fun for kids by making a den/blanket fort to watch the movie from, having some toys set out to play with if they get bored, and taking regular breaks for snacks etc.
There attention spans can be really short, but this can work in your favour too if you keep giving them diversions and distractions

I've had three children and only one of them did this, she threw everything and was actually a really good shot! She smashed our large TV screen but throwing a drink bottle at it, and threw a remote control and it smacked me in the head. A nursery teacher told me it is a schema that a pp suggested, and we were told to give her things that she is allowed to throw. Such as small beanbags or soft toys. However it didn't stop her, if she felt the urge to throw she threw whatever was nearest 🤦🏻‍♀️. She's just turned 4 now and I would say it almost stopped by age 3.
The best thing you can do is keep things that can be thrown (and that will be damaging) to a minimum.

Yeah, normal.

I have a 19 month old and it's all she does. I also have a 4 year old and a 5 year old and they either make it a game with her and the house ends up a tip, or end up raging because she throws their toys about.

You can't really stop them, they don't really know it's not ok and think it's just fun. I tell her to stop but there's not much more you can do. They grow out of it thankfully!

Thankyou everyone this means alot and all really helpfull.i feel alot better knowing other peoples children are just the same snd its not something im doing wrong.