Challenging times: toddler anger
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Also when she hits, I tell her that's mean and it hurts and I remove myself. She often stops after that.
Thank you for your input Stephanie!
My son doesn’t hit me or other people but he will hit himself. And make himself vomit when he gets angry. All I do is get him to the bathroom to vomit if I see it coming. As for the hitting himself I will ask why he’s hitting himself and 9 times out of 10 he says dada which most of the time his fits are when he comes back from his dad’s. I asked him if daddy hits himself and he said yes. So when I went in and had baby number 2 last Friday the hospital questioned why I was a no info patient and I disclosed to them everything that happened and led to me fleeing my soon to be ex husband and they called CPS on my kids father.
Best thing to do is change his scenery and his behavior will change. My son was like this and his behavior changed when you moved him elsewhere for distraction. He is just figuring out his emotions and doesn’t know how to express them. Toddlers are little people with big emotions that they don’t always have the words for. Play gives them a chance to explore and express their emotions and practise managing them.
We were at grandmas house for a few days, I came back home and he seems more like himself. I think he was just missing his familiar space. Thank you everyone for their responses ❤️
My toddler will throw things and also herself onto the floor. Sometimes she will hit me if I pick her up. It is quite scary. What I've done is label her emotion like "It seems you're very angry or frustrated. Are you?" Sometimes she will respond and say yes. I often let her go through the emotion or distract her. I will remove her from the situation if it's too extreme. I never punish. To me it seems normal because she can't process emotions logically, yet but I haven't asked her doctor. It is scary though, I agree.