Tag: hitting

A few weeks ago, my toddler was hanging out at his grandma’s house when he started getting frustrated. He got so cranky that he started banging on the table. Immediately I told him, “You seem upset, but I won’t let you hit the table. Here—hit the pillow instead.” He obliged and started pounding on the [...]

The other day my toddler wasn’t in the best of moods. It was one of those, “Let me complain about the littlest things” kind of days. He and his dad were rough housing when LO hit his dad with a plastic toy. Right away the air changed from giddiness to tension, and LO was in [...]

We were at my mother-in-law’s house yesterday when my toddler noticed his 10-year-old cousin G tossing a tennis ball with her hand. “Want to play,” my toddler said. So G threw the ball towards him and he picked it up, but rather than throwing the ball back towards her, he pretty much threw it at [...]