Hair Pulling/Face Squeezing

My baby does this and while yes it sometimes hurts, I love it!! He doesn’t know better and like you said, it’s way for them to show their love!! Personally I think it’s too young to discipline, but curious to see what others say!

I can only support you with a joke, "there is nothing stronger in this world than a baby's grip." It already seems to me that I am bald on one side of the back of my head. Today, my strong girl broke the chain around my neck, and yesterday she learned to pinch my skin painfully. I agree that this is still a young age for discipline. So I just put up with it, of course I remove the hair from her hands, but if she makes it really painful, then I just tell her every time, even if it seems that she doesn't understand anything. Haha I think she does

when my lil boy smacks me or grabs my face, something like that i yell in pain dramatically loud or fake cry then look over at him and stare then he starts smiling or laughing. then i say “hey don’t ___ that really hurts mama. (he’s just turned 5 months lol pretty sure he thinks ima joke) 😂😂😂

Thanks mamas! I also think it’s cute but sometimes it actually hurts! I will show him it hurts but I read somewhere that they should start learning “no” so was wondering if anyone else was working on that :)

Yea my little one does it and it's so cute. We do currently have matching scratches on our noses but that was my fault because I couldn't find the nail clippers I have since bought new ones. The only "disciplining" I do is when she grabs my hair she doesn't actually pull it really but I do keep telling her can you please let go of mommy's hair until she does it, she will just open up her fingers and I pull out my hair and I'll say thank you, I was pretty good about doing that as soon as she started grabbing onto my hair also because I realized she wasn't actually super pulling just grabbing.

@Tamara i have slowly started saying no

My lo always grabs my hair. Lol I just leave her when it hurts I just remove it from her hand

My girl does this all the time and a lot of it when she’s eating or when we’re laying down cuddling she’ll rub her hand all over my face it’s kinda cute honestly

Haha yesssssss. I mean, discipling a baby who doesn’t know they’re hurting you and things they’re bonding sounds a little bit scary….. I just take her hands away and cut her nails a lot. It definitely hurts, they don’t know they’re so strong. When she bites my nipple, then I say no and get a bit upset because that could be super dangerous. My mom’s friend had a part of her nipple bitten off 🙈 lol.

Girl my baby has clawed my face up grabbing at my mouth and cheeks 😭 and his nails aren’t even long so idk why his fingernails are like razors 😭 but he loves grabbing at my face and pulling hair so I just deal with it 😂😂😂😂

I don’t really discipline her, but I do gently remove her hand (when it hurts) and calmly say something along the lines of, “that hurts mommy” and that’s really it. Most of the time I love it though and just let her. I read somewhere that when they are babies they are looking for reactions, good or bad. So when you have a big reaction, no matter how big, they will think it’s a good thing. So trying not to react is best when they’re little. But I’m no expert. It’s my first rodeo so I’m learning too.