Toddler hitting

Following as my little girl is doing this too! She hits me if I say no, perfect at nursery at her daddy's house on the weekend but with me she just goes mental. She's even started pulling my hair. I tell her off and she just laughs at me!

I’ve only dealt with this a handful of times with my daughter, but when she got overwhelmed and tried to swat at me, I calmly told her, “I won’t let her hit me”, and I would put her down. That seemed to work well. I know of another mama to a little boy who would say “you may not hit me, but you can hit this”, as she would hand him a pillow or something else that’s soft. I think both worked well for each of us because they were delivered calmly and without a lot of drama, and it only took a few times for both of us.

Before you see them raise their hand to hit you ,gently take their hand and say gentle hands ,hitting makes me sad and walk away ,don’t give too much attention to it as the less reaction they are going to get the less they are going to do it .My son went through the stage of pushing us but we did exactly that and stopped after a while as found our reaction boring to it and us walking away wasn’t fun

My boy hasn’t done this in a while but did go through a phase of doing it I would put him in his bedroom and shut his gate I would leave him for a minute or two come back and say are you ready to say sorry because hitting mummy is not ok and it makes me very sad when he would say sorry I would open the gate give him a cuddle and explain hitting isn’t nice and if he does it again he will go back in his room x

@Theresa thank you, will try this

@Olivija thank you will try this