Please tell me this is a normal phase
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| Tue, 12-19-2006 - 2:29pm |
Because I'm about to pull my hair out!
Noah can be such a sweetie pie, cuddly, lovable and seemingly wise beyond his year. He is fourteen months old now and sometimes it seems like a switch has been flipped and he turned into some sort of devil child fixed on destruction. He throws the DVDs off the shelf, knocks the bulbs off the tree, dumps his sippy cup out, throws everything off of every table - all intentionally. It's not like he just didn't realize he wasn't supposed to do it. He looks at you with a smile when he does it because he knows he's doing something he's not supposed to.
What do you do for this? I've tried smacking his hand when he touches something he's not supposed to, I've even tried a spanking a few times but that doesn't even phase him. I don't think time outs are working because he's too young to understand that he is in trouble and just has to sit in one spot. I would hate to use his bed as a punishment spot. What happened to my little angel?


Oh he is sooooo at that age!
1) Totally normal - they learn destruction before building.