My 17 mo is a challenge. The best way to describe her is mean. She is with me or my DH 24 hours a day. She is always in the same room with one of us during the day and sleeps with her 2 sisters.
The first hour of the day she is lovey and happy. Then she starts with her demands. If we do not give into her demands she screams, hits, bites, and uses other objects that she can find like brushes and shoes to hit you with.
Her demands are simple and we try to comply. But this morning I ran out of grape nuts... yes grape nuts. She had half of mine. When I ran out... she kicked me. She tried to dig her nails into my arm but I stood up and tried to walk away.
She has a very good vocab at 17 months. "All Gone" is one of them... but she doesn't seem to care. I end up using "no" more than 10 times a day.
I let her do things... and try natural consequences... but that doesn't work... she doesn't care. Last week she severed her thumb down to the bone, just by forcing a door to close on her finger.
My other two daughters are not like this. My oldest has great manners and is the easiest kid in the world. My second is borderline Autistic and Sensory integration disorder and as long as we don't make wild changes in her schedule and let her play with Play doh... she is happy. I can go days without saying no to them!
The 17 mo has never had any examples of this type of behavior.
When she has hurt us seriously, we have to put her in her crib so we can calm down. The hair brush to the face was a big one.
Her throwing away my wallet, check book, gift cards and remote controls can be overlooked... but the constant screaming and hitting us with "weapons" cannot. Do you have any ideas on how to decrease this behavior?
I would also like pointers to get her to stop chewing on wood furniture please!
The first hour of the day she is lovey and happy. Then she starts with her demands. If we do not give into her demands she screams, hits, bites, and uses other objects that she can find like brushes and shoes to hit you with.
Her demands are simple and we try to comply. But this morning I ran out of grape nuts... yes grape nuts. She had half of mine. When I ran out... she kicked me. She tried to dig her nails into my arm but I stood up and tried to walk away.
She has a very good vocab at 17 months. "All Gone" is one of them... but she doesn't seem to care. I end up using "no" more than 10 times a day.
I let her do things... and try natural consequences... but that doesn't work... she doesn't care. Last week she severed her thumb down to the bone, just by forcing a door to close on her finger.
My other two daughters are not like this. My oldest has great manners and is the easiest kid in the world. My second is borderline Autistic and Sensory integration disorder and as long as we don't make wild changes in her schedule and let her play with Play doh... she is happy. I can go days without saying no to them!
The 17 mo has never had any examples of this type of behavior.
When she has hurt us seriously, we have to put her in her crib so we can calm down. The hair brush to the face was a big one.
Her throwing away my wallet, check book, gift cards and remote controls can be overlooked... but the constant screaming and hitting us with "weapons" cannot. Do you have any ideas on how to decrease this behavior?
I would also like pointers to get her to stop chewing on wood furniture please!
