My son has just turned two and has started to show some challenging behaviour that I’m hoping is just the standard terrible twos…
He’s pretty destructive and most of his ‘playing’ involves dumping toy cars/building blocks/duplo/jigsaws etc onto the floor, putting it away again before dumping it out again. If I’m putting stuff away he will deliberately follow me around and dump it out again, seems like it’s a great game to him and he loves seeing the reaction he gets from me.
He’s started to throw/hit if he doesn’t get his own way. I am trying to redirect this behaviour to something positive, but it’s a challenge, and if I take a toy off him for throwing he’ll simply get his hands on the next available toy to throw. I’m getting fed up of constantly saying ‘no’ as it’s not working. He understands perfectly that he shouldn’t be doing it but clearly that’s half the fun for him.
He is behind with his speech which is obviously a big frustration for him and probably the cause of a lot of this behaviour. He has a hearing test coming up with suspected glue ear/enlarged adenoids, as awful as it sounds I hope there is an issue as it will give some justification for all this rather than just behavioural/developmental.
I didn’t really experience the ‘terrible twos’ with his older sister. She was always quite biddable and calm, so I guess it’s karma that my second child is the opposite 🤣 Anyone have a similar experience to this and reassure me that it’s just standard two year old behaviour and will pass like everything else?!