Need advice w/ 2 yr old

Gem17

My daughter has learned some phrases from my FIL that are getting out of hand.  No bad words, but she is saying them out of defiance now.  She says "bad dog" to you when she doesn't like what you are telling her.  I know this is just a phase of her exerting her independence and doing things on her own, but I don't know how to respond.  We say "no, you don't say that.  That's not a nice thing to say" and things like that.  What would you recommend to get her to stop and/or how would you respond when she says things like this?

FWIW, we are telling FIL to stop saying things like this.  He's joking about his dog when he says it, but he also chases the dog with her saying "kick" as they playfully chase the dog.  All of our family dogs are great with her.  But she now tries to kick our dogs, and she kicks out her foot when saying "bad dog" to us.  Grrrr!

Gem17

No he will listen. I'm more worried about correcting her behavior of saying "bad dog" to adults and kicking.

sheremy

When my 2 year old acts out I typically just ignore her and that seems to work almost immediately. Sometimes I think reacting (Positively or negatively) just makes the situation worse. If DD throws herself on the floor in a tantrum I just walk away and continue with what I was doing. She is usually over it in about 10 seconds.