Anyone else's baby love to slap

My little guy just turned 8 months on the 3rd and loves to slap us everywhere. Face, chest, stomach, arms, etc. Anyone else have this problem and how do you get them to understand no?

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Yes and I have a permanent scar on my right cornea because of her slapping my eye 🙃🙃. I try to redirect because I know they don't really know what they're doing but man it hurts

Ouch. I'm sorry. You got that right it hurts like heck. He slapped me on my csection scar this morning and omg it hadn't hurt like before. He also loves to slap himself in the face.

Yes, same!!! Slapping, hair pulling, kicking, the whole nine. We use a strong no and use hand over hand to teach soft touch

Yes slapping and kicking

My baby pulls on me when she’s hungry and smacks her arm around when she’s tired. She also slaps everything because she’s learning that it makes a noise. We have mainly carpet but I always know where she is because she bangs on the wood floor in the dining room and hits the tv stand in the living room. I think that she thinks it funny because of the noise it makes. She has a pretty good idea of the word “no” and my serious face so when she’s just being playful, I let her be, but if she’s being too aggressive, I remove her from her current location and tell her “no, that’s not kind.”

Yes. My son is literally beating me up. Or pulling my hair. Lol.

Yes and she’s 7 month. It can be a light slap to a really hard punch into the face.

Yes, slapping, kicking, throwing herself back, head butting me, pulling my hair, biting me, yanking my clothes, yelling at me lol. She's a straight up bully lol

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Girrrlll, ladiess how do we deal with our toddler hitting us ? Currently my head is buzzing bc my son decided to hit me in the head with a heavy ass tub of cream , but its a non stop occurrence... Last night as we were going to sleep, all quiet , randomly BAM a heavy slap that actually burned my cheek... Ive been doing gentle parenting , saying " no, its not nice " lets be gentle like this *showing how to gently caress someone s face* ... idk what to do anymore... If I can see something coming, I'll stop it before he actually hits me ...but sometimes its just rlly random.. pls help 😔😔

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I’m really close to my cousin she has a boy who’s 7 and my little boy is 2. We take them out on play dates but my cousins little boy is purposely not very kind to my boy.
He’s done things like when my boy is on his balance bike kick his football at the bike to try and get him to fall off and I’ve seen him do things like put his foot out as my little boy is running to make him trip up.
My cousin is very much a gentle parenting style and will never shout at him or tell him properly not to do these things?
He even got in my car yesterday and left chocolate all over the seat, water stained the seat and let wrappers all over! I feel like it’s really getting to me but I know if I say something it’ll cause bad feelings. How do I address this behaviour?

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So mommy helps you out, cuddles, bum pats and shushing, but oh no.. you want to tell jokes and shout at me 😂.
But then, you become tired, very overtired, and all of a sudden it’s my fault?! I know you hate the cot, so I’ll soak up the contact naps while I can but girl don’t bite the hand that feeds you (or boob lol) you can have a nap it’s okay I am here for you!! I’ll still be here when you wake up 🤣 didn’t fancy having breakfast this morning anyways 🥲😂🤣

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