Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Toddlers Hitting

My wife and I were at our wits end.

Our son who has always been very active, stubborn and aggressive since he was born was totally out of control. He was hitting his older sister and constantly aggravating her to the point that she no longer wanted to be around her little brother.

Our toddlers hitting was something that both of us constantly fretted about and was always a point of disagreement and stress between my wife and myself. It was getting to the point that our marriage was beginning to fall apart. Not knowing what to do about our toddlers hitting and how to go about handling it was dividing us and that was something that we knew we had to do something about.

What really got to us is that our daughter is the total opposite of our son. She has always been calm and easy to get along with and never had toddlers tantrums like her younger brother has always exhibited. When we were out in public before our son was born and we saw other parents children behaving as our son did, we would just laugh and say how the parents could let their kids act that way.

Now we knew exactly how those parents had felt and the position that they were in. No control over their child and feeling like they were failing as parents. We now knew the anxiety and stress of being parents whose todder is hitting and feeling out of control and unable to stop our toddler hitting behavior.

How could he be so different was something that we always asked each other. We could not figure it out, but there was something that had to be done about our toddlers hitting and his aggressive behavior towards all of us. We had even watched the TV show Nanny 911 to try to get some ideas on how to control our toddler hitting behavior. It just seemed that whatever we tried, things just did not get any better.

Putting our son in a chair or giving him a timeout was a joke. A couple of minutes after the punishment, he went right back to the same behavior, if not more so. We desperately needed a fix to our toddlers hitting. He was soon going to be attending pre-school and we were scared to death that he would wind up hitting other kids in the classroom.

So we started doing some research on the internet and came across a new approach that has been proven to stop all of the aggressive behavior and toddler hitting that our son was constantly baraging us with. We started using the stategies that we learned from the program and within about two weeks, we saw a vast improvement in his behavior.

It taught us how to deal with toddler hitting and why toddlers hit. Our toddlers tantrums began to subside and his toddlers hitting was greatly reduced to a point that his older sister now felt comfortable around him. Every once in awhile the toddler tantrums flare up, but the intensity is something that just one of us can handle now.

Our marriage is now on the mend and we both look forward to coming home from work and being able to play and interact with both of our kids without the anxiety and stress of having to try to cope with our toddlers hitting and tantrums. We are a much happier family because of the toddlers hitting program that we continue to implement with our son, and we can see that he is also a much happier and easy going child as a result.

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