Throwing EVERYTHING & Kicking

NewMommy2BeFinally

I also posted this is the Toddlers 12-24 mos board but you guys also give greatadvice so i would love to hear feedback from yall too  

My girls have been throwing their bottle & sippy cup for a couple mons now... like, when they are done with it they just chuck it across the room. Drives me crazy. They do this with their utensils too and now just started doing it with their food. they throw it on the ground and say "UH-OHHH!" & laugh.  it's cute, but i dont show them i think it's cute. I tell them when they are done to "put it right there when you are done with your juice" and they do it for a minute or two then they keep throwing. I know this is a phase (i remember my nephew doing this too at this age). But it's driving me nuts lol.

Now the new thing is Kicking. If one is laying down on the couch and (of course) the other sits next to her, the other one kicks and laughs. the one who is kicked doesnt cry, she also laughs too, but i try to teach them (in a stern voice) NOT to kick because she is hurting her sister. But they keep doing it. They even kick eachother's heads and still laugh.

Any tips on any of this? Do your LO's do this too? Or when did it stop?

Thanks, ladies

atc282

In regard to the throwing food and utensils issue, mine do this too.Tonight, for example, one DD threw her half eaten bowl of yogurt and her spoon splat on the ground. I simply just told her a stern no then took the bowl away w/o offering it to her again (even though I know she would have loved the chance to do it again). I don't make a big deal of it but let her know that it's not ok to throw stuff like that.So basically, I just take it away the first offense.

As far as the kicking goes, mine don't kick, but slap or tug roughly at each other. If this happens, and a stern NO and "be gentle" doesn't work, I started doing time outs. They HATE time outs (for us, that means 1 min. alone in the crib with the door shut so that other DD can't go in the room and try to entertain the other one). Usually gets them to stop (for the time being at least).

GL and HTH

bellasmom27

Isabella used to do this a lot when she was around that age and she started much smaller. I used to tell her the same exact thing you did and instructed her to put it where it belongs and not throw it. Ofcourse, she would throw it and laugh as well. What I began doing is even before she could talk and I KNEW she understood me, every single time she purposely threw something on the floor, and she would say "Oh oh" I would say "Oh oh is right and its gonna stay there. After I say that she would start crying hysterically b/c she assumed I would pick it up for her, while crying I would tell her, Mommy told you i would not pick it up after you threw it. I'd let her cry for like 5 minutes tops, pick up the object put it on her high chair and say "are we done?" And after a few short weeks she NEVER threw anything again. When she would put it where it belonged Id praise her and tell her 'Good girl Isabella" Till this day she knows her clothes goes in the hamper, cups on the table, and toys back in her playroom. As for kicking one another, well I'll be the one coming to YOU for advise on that one when the boys are bigger! :-o

NewMommy2BeFinally

Thanks, ladies! Looks like i am on the right track! I do exactly what u both said, so i am sure it will work and yes, Nikki, ask away xoxoxox Thank you guys!