Is this normal toddler behaviour?

[bambino156]

Every so often my lo will go on the rampage. Its like she deliberately goes out of her way to try and break something. Yesterday whilst my mum was looking after her she broke the blinds across the patio doors and also dragged the vcr from underneath the tv so quickly and with such force that she pulled all of the wires out the back. Shes like this at home sometimes too. When you say no to her or try and explain not to do something she just laughs at you. Is this just another normal 'phase'? x

 

[sparkle_1979]

yes think this is normal...just now I was telling Ruby off for something and she took her sunglasses off and snapped them then she wanted them fixed and had a tantrum because they were broke

 

[aliwnec10]

My son never did anything like that. But i'm sure it's normal. THe question is, what do you do about it?

We've taught my son to be 'gentle' since day 1. If he throws something, he gets told to be gentle and do nice. If he does it again, he is asked to pick it up and the toy gets taken away. The next step is a time out.

how old is she?

 

[RachA]

Normal behaviour i would say. My two are like that to some extent. Depending on what it is the item will be taken away!

 

[Miss_Bump]

Normal and she is probably testing boundaries too.

I agree with aliwnec10 to teach her to be gentle.

Evie gets very heavy handed when she is excited and gets hyper!

I say 'evie stop!' to get her attention (usually when she is charging at the cat) and then I say 'we use gentle hands when we stroke Harry'

If she hit him I hold her hand and tell her to remember 'gentle hands' and show her what gentle is.

She has actually tried to take the Virgin Box out of the unit and I pretended to lift it and and said it was very heavy and told her it was dangerous and that seems to work

 

[lousielou]

My LO intentionally breaks things - even toys that he loves. I think he understands that once something's broken it's broken... but he seems to like asking me to fix things anyway

He doesn't really do it as much as he used to though, so he's slowly growing out of it. I hope.

 

[bambino156]

My son never did anything like that. But i'm sure it's normal. THe question is, what do you do about it?

We've taught my son to be 'gentle' since day 1. If he throws something, he gets told to be gentle and do nice. If he does it again, he is asked to pick it up and the toy gets taken away. The next step is a time out.

how old is she?

My lo is almost 16 months

I've just been finding it a slightly disturbing, its like she sees red and off she goes! I know its stereotypical, but I would kind of be expecting this boisterous behaviour if lo were a boy - its taken me by surprise

 

[hattiehippo]

Tom's not deliberatly destroyed anything yet but I know some of my friends LOs do and go on sort of rampages just like you say. It sounds normal for some toddlers - testing out boundaries and also what happens when they do something.

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

Ruby finds things getting broken and then fixed highly amusing. So I would say definitely normal!

 

[IHrtSteve]

My boy is pretty gentle. Not sure if I am lucky that is his nature, or if he just listens well. I have been overly conscious of teaching him gentleness...my SS is hyper and was fairly destructive at a young age.

 

[msfoxymax]

I'd say normal cos Olivia has started to be a wee sh1te and doing this lots lol! She's driving me nuts. Not so much breaking things but testing the boundaries by being defiant toddler or screaming toddler. Deep breath and count to 100 lol xxx

 

[purpledahlia]

Def normal but def agree with its all in how you handle it...