Toddler Tantrums/Nursery Issues

Hi all,

Just looking for any advice or anyone who’s experienced similar with their children?

Our little boy is 2 years, 3 months and the last few weeks, his tantrums have been horrendous. We are getting daily incident reports from nursery from where he’s snacked other children or thrown toys at them and I’m at a complete loss as to what to do.

He doesn’t necessarily go to smack us at home but if we try to pick him up to go upstairs for example, and he doesn’t want to, he will kick about and try and head butt us. He will also go to headbutt the floor at times if he doesn’t like something which I find really distressing.

We can tell him off but he doesn’t really react, he will get upset with us for being told off but it doesn’t stop him from doing whatever he was doing.

I am currently 34 weeks pregnant so I’m not sure if he’s sensing something there given that there is change imminent but obviously no baby yet so might be quite confusing for him but I’m absolutely terrified about the arrival of baby and how this is going to affect him. We’ve tried to get him involved with bump and talk about the baby etc but he literally just ignores us and shows no interest at all.

I’m at the point where it’s constantly worrying me as I’m waiting for an update from nursery and worried that it’s not just a ‘developmental phase’. We have had our 2 year review delayed so I’ve requested that but feeling really worried that this is outside of the norm of the ‘terrible twos’.

Has anyone else had anything similar? I know he’s only still very young but this seems really extreme at times.

Thanks x

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