[sunny]

Lainey has unfortunately gotten her dad's temperament it seems and throws stuff when she is upset I am so ticked off she has seen this done (Gareth getting mad at his video game and chucking his controller down etc... always stupid things never really towards us thank goodness but still!) so how do I go about stopping/changing this behavior?!

She also will come up to us or the dog and hit us and she never sees any of us hitting one another so I am not sure where she got that one

[Momma2BraylonandMadeline]

Braylon will hit us occasionally - I am sure this comes from day care. We usually take his hand and tell him no. If he isn't listening and we are holding him we will put him down. He throws little tantrums on occasion that we try to just ignore so not to fuel them more. We also have a spot in the house that he sits on if he is doing something over and over. He knows when he does something wrong and cries usually and then it's over.

[sunny]

thanks! I honestly dunno where she learned the hitting as neither of us have ever hit her or anyone else in this family. I think it just came out of frustration and she realized we were not happy with her doing it hence she continues to do it when ticked off. We are telling her we don't hit and putting her hands down or trying to distract and positive redirect but jeesh it is frustrating!

[magoo79]

the hitting thing is totally normal and NOT a learned behavior! its human nature- so don't feel badly that she is hitting. I mean don't worry about where she learned it, obviously still work on the "we don't hit. be gentle" stuff!

[Clarissa J]

I hate to admit that Gabs has got my temperment! I see us butting heads for sure in the future. I see a lot of me in her.

She also is loose with the hands sometimes and we definitely tell her "Gabriella, we do not hit" " That is not nice". When she doesn't get her way, she throws herself on the floor no screaming or anything she just goes on the floor so I ignore her when she does that lol.

[AllyssaM]

Em went through a small hitting phase - Thankfully, it passed quick. We were just stern and told her we do NOT hit. I also stopped right then and there with tapping her hand when she wasn't suppose to touch something [after telling her not to] and stopped spankings at the time as well.

She talks back already - Telling us 'no!' when we ask her to do something, sometimes. I know it's not like, full blown talking back, but we just sternly tell her not to tell us no when we ask her to do something. If she says no again, to that, then we put her in time out.