I need to get used to this …

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DD (just turned 2) has slapped me, screamed at me, pushed me and had many many tantrums.

It’s normal I know and I know that it isn’t personal. It feels it, though. She was such a beautiful gentle baby and lovely one year old this behaviour has come as a bit of a shock. I know it’s not the first time she’ll take her frustration out on me but it’s so hard!

A 2 year old is old enough to understand. I have a 20 month old and he understands perfectly well that hitting is not allowed. If he attempts to it is stopped straight away and behaviour deflected. He understands not to and that he will get consequences if he continues.

She slapped you? What were the consequences for her for doing this? You need to nip this in the bud, not sit there feeling sad about it…

Don't be ridiculous 🙄 Have you had children.

Older toddlers and children teeth - they can tell you they're in pain. Mine certainly did.

The pain disrupts their sleep which causes the mood change.

My 23 yo has wisdom teeth coming at the moment and he's in pain.

yes, many children. If your son is in pain he need to see a dentist - it is n't normal

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FFS of course it's normal - just because your children didn't happen to do this specific thing doesn't mean it's not possible that any other child will, or that OP is somehow parenting wrong. My elder DC never did this; my younger one went through a brief quite hitty phase at 18 months. It was hilarious and awful - if you picked him up when he didn't want to be picked up, he was perfectly positioned to just slap you round the face. He did it to staff at nursery too (not other children). Anyway, we told him not to (gently but firmly) each time, showed him nicer things to do with his hands, and he cheered up and stopped doing it after a couple of weeks. Possibly teething, possibly feeling otherwise under the weather.

Laugh all you like, teething is just an old wives tale, it isn't a "thing" that has been established beyond any doubt, and was at least 30 years ago, but of course people cling on very tight to folk beliefs.

First sensible poster. The only thing: absolutely there are "perfect" children who never lash out or scream or hit. They are the "good girls", the "nice boys". They are repressed and suffering.

OP, people have normalised repression so much that they conflate it with "parenting". It's totally a stage and the other end of it is beautiful.

Or they respond to their children being in pain like normal human beings. Any idiot can identify when their child has teething pain. Mine didn’t suffer like some children when they started coming in at 5 months and he wasn’t particularly dribbly either. But later on he did have a bout of pain with it- it’s easily identifiable.

Have some more of these for calling it an old wives tale 😂😂😂

I agree that it’s part of their development and to be expected. But that does not mean that the OP should have to accept being hit.

I don’t think I’ve said that I do. I move her away, say no, use the strategies, but ultimately she is two and behaves like, well, a two year old. And every do lash out when frustrated unfortunately.