Why is my child acting like the spawn of Satan 😭

How old is he , my little girl was 2 in April and he is exactly the same

he also turned 2 in April x

My daughter is exactly the same. She was also 2 in April. Surprisingly she only behaves like this towards my Mum so her Nanny. She constantly says No to her Nanny and is trying to hit her, shouts at her etc. I keep explaining we don’t do it and ask her to apologise. She does it then 10 minutes later she would start being rude to my Mum again. I think they are pushing the boundaries and keep testing us. The message will finally get there 🤞🏻but it’s exhausting atm

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This is literally my boy to a tee!! He does the exact same! He was also 2 in April! I’m trying to think what I can do but nothing is working and now we also have a newborn. He is so amazing with her but then he acts up to me and dad. X

My little 2 year old boy is the same. I ended up joining in copying his tantrum and rolling around the floor and it made him stop, laugh at me, then we could communicate. This was at home but I’d 100% do the same in public if it meant he’d calm down so I could go about my day 😂 x

yeah we too have a newborn. And he's the same, adores his brother, wants to be around him, hugging him, kissing him all the time. But is a complete nightmare for me and dad. It's be so easy to put the behaviour down to the newborn joining us, but it's been going on longer than that

We are literally in the same boat! Same that’s what I wanted to say but it’s been going on for long too! It’s just hard. Don’t know what else to try. I’ve tried the naughty step and everything too. Do you want to message privately hopefully we can figure a solution 🙈

I'm so sorry you're going through this. Try looking up schemas of play (transporting, connecting, positioning, rotation, etc.)- it may be that he's getting frustrated as he's not able to have enough autonomy
- "In its simplest sense, autonomy is about a person's ability to act on his or her own values and interests." So he might be displaying this other behaviour.

I really recommend reading Sarah Ockwell-Smith's books on gentle parenting. Especially the gentle discipline book- it goes into detail about behaviour in children..including why they might do it, what it means and how we can address it. There will also be a root cause, and unless that's addressed they'll not be able to change what they're doing. She explains it much better than me haha!

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Ours is the same, just bought a reward chart so see how that goes!

@Louise hey! It's so difficult with these things. I really found Sarah Ockwell-Smith's books amazing! They're about children's psychological development. Interestingly, at this age they mentally do not have the capacity to be "naughty" and though mainstream in our society, the naughty step and other such techniques can't be effective on this age group ...and she recommends not using on any age group! It's such an interesting and helpful read! Feel free to message me :)