Behaviors

This is age appropriate unfortunately but I always use the term we don’t put our hands on friends and gentle hands

Our son has had this issue as well with hitting, biting which happened to him early on and I suspect he’s modeled that behavior afterwards. He’s a little over 2 years and it has been better with both work at home and at school (daycare) where teachers have redirected his behavior and put him on « body breaks » when we would get « handy ». He was never really ill-intentioned with it, it was more a knee jerk reaction to his frustration or emotions. He doesn’t really do it anymore now after a lot of work both at school and at home. I have researched and asked, and all I saw was « it’s a phase ». I do believe it’s a phase and things seem to be pointing out in that direction. When I tickle him and he’s not really into it, he’ll also tell him « mama, keep self » which is his way to tell me to keep my hands to myself. I was proud of him for expressing himself that way. It means he is learning from what we have been telling us. They go through developmental phases and it’ll pass ☺️