HELPPPPP

Anytime I get onto the dogs for misbehaving it’s usually telling them no or not to do that and on a occasion I pop them on the bottom if they try to take his food, my son will have meltdown thinking I’m talking to him or something I guess I don’t really know. He doesn’t talk like an average 3 year old (we go to speech) so I don’t know if it’s him not being able to express his emotions or what it is but I need help, I need advice 😩😩 I don’t want him being sad and I want him to be able to understand I’m not talking to him and I always say that each time it happens as well. Ugh this mama is struggling