13 month old seems conniving!

[sldenberns]

Hear me out.. I know how it sounds. But I've been watching my little girls behaviour over the past couple of weeks and she is 100% doing naughty things deliberately. The more I tell her to stop - the more she does it... just now she was smacking my husbands face really hard and I told her NO! In a strict serious voice, she laughed and carried on!

I feel like she's too young to be like this?! What are your thoughts/ experiences? I'm
Worried she's going to have behavioural problems! It just seems so strange for such a youngster to be doing things that she knows are naughty and loving being told off?? Xx

Ignore and distract. You're giving her exactly what will result in more of the behaviour - attention. She doesn't understand 'no' properly yet and can't understand consequences. You need to ignore the negative behaviour and divert her attention to something else. Apply this to basically every situation where she is doing something she shouldn't.

Conniving?! Good grief.

She’s a baby. I assume she’s your first?

Don't shout no at her, she'll find it funny and be confused to see you angry.

Say, look dd, we touch gently then demonstrate.

say 'Gentle hands', other than 'no!!'

She’s a baby fgs! I am going to guess that you haven’t really been around many young children before. Definitely worth reading up on child development OP.
As for hitting, don’t tell her off, say in a normal voice, we don’t hit, we use gentle hands and if she continues remove her and distract.

Conniving is a horrible word to use to describe your baby.

God some of you are such old witches. I came for advice not abuse!!!!!!

@FrancescaContini I assume you're perfect?

Interesting how you go straight for name calling when people say things you don't like. No one has been this rude to you.
It's strange and frankly worrying that you called your 13 month old conniving, whether you want to hear that or not.

You have had some good advice, you should be grateful that pp took the time to try and help, instead of calling people names.

Oh fgs I’m seriously concerned by your post aswell as some of these replies!

SHES 13 MONTHS OLD! She isn’t naughty nor is she conniving. Her behaviour isn’t bad or not either fgs. Just ignore ajd distract her from whatever behaviour she’s doing at the time and accept this is part of a developing CERY YOUNG toddler

Surely this is a wind up. FGS she's a baby.

Not remotely. But I am not claiming that I am. What’s your point?

A 13 month old baby doesn’t yet have the mental development / capacity to be “conniving”. Have you ever read anything basic on child development? It’d be useful and stop you using horrible labels for your baby.