I'm at a complete loss
My toddler keeps hitting the baby. Sometimes it'll be out of frustration like he wants the toy she's playing with other times it seems completely unprompted.
I know he's two and this is unfortunately common to your old behavior. I'm just really struggling with disciplining the situation.
He's smart enough to understand that he hit her and some of the details but not to tell me why. And he doesn't stop.
This has been going on all week long and I don't know how to help either of my kids. My toddler to stop hitting and my babies to stop being the target.
So normal. A few ideas when your son hits pick up baby and give the baby a lot of attention and ignore toddler. He wants attention and negative attention is still attention. The rest of the day give toddler lots of positive attention and talk about gentle touch give lots of praise for being gentle. Try to give words to frustration and anger. Before the hitting. Talk to baby that no he cant have xyz (special privileges or toys)because hes too young its only for big boys.
A 2 year old is still a baby & needs alot of attention as well. He probably feels that the baby is getting more attention then him & he's trying to get your attention.
