How to deal with toddler hitting?

I'm so freaking over my 2 year old hitting and throwing things at us, her older sister and the newborn baby. Yes, I know its completely normal behaviour for a 2 year old but at the same time, there's also a safety issue. I've tried everything from redirecting, holding her hands, gently explaining not to hit but nothing works and she just ends up hitting us even more. Its not fair that my older child has to constantly have things thrown at her or slapped. With the newborn baby she will be completely fine kissing him etc and then out of the blue, whacks him in the face. I have to resort to yelling at her because nothing else freaking works and afterwards I feel so guilty for yelling. I try not to get angry and im just hoping it passes with time but its really messing up our family dynamics atm😭😭

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My 19 month old is the same way nothing's working, I had him sit in time out today until he signed sorry

Just a simple no and get up and walk away. Same with your oldest one tell them to just get up and walk away.

Once they’ve calmed down “we do not hit” they’ll cry likely and then try again. Once they realize you won’t entertain that behaviour with anything they’ll stop. Reward when she is playing nice and being gentle.

My son was a hitter he liked any sort of attention good or bad so we just stop giving it to him. He would hit me during a game and I would be like nope and just leave. First few times was a shocker and he cried and cried but everytime I explained I do not like being hit. Hitting is not nice if we can’t play gentle we can’t play at all

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