help with baby

• 07-07-2009 2:47 PM

  margaret2654903 Joined on 03-27-2008 Posts 1

  help with baby Reply Contact my daughter is 11 months now but she has just started to get really rough, if she is close to your face she smacks you or if she is standing near you she will scratch your arm she actually digs her nails in. if i say no to her and tell her to do it nicely she puts her head down and pretends to cry for a few seconds then just does it again sometimes she really does hurt. i would just like some advice on how to approach this kind of behaviour because its not something i want to continue and hope she grows out of it.

• 07-10-2009 11:02 AM

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  deedee2769280 Joined on 03-30-2008 Posts 1

  Re: help with baby Reply Contact My daughter is 10months and she has been hitting if she does not get her way or you take something off her that she is not to have. I have started to tap her hand and she has started to stop and not go back to what she was doing. I do not tap her hard just a little one. I hope my daugter will also grow out of this, but she gets the message she will not do the same thing twice.

• 08-28-2009 10:01 PM

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  Stephanie2679041 Joined on 04-21-2008 Posts 1

  Re: help with baby Reply Contact Hi, My 10 month old is also very aggressive, he grabs at my face and throat, and yes it hurts, no matter how short I keep his nails! If I react or even raise my voice to be firm and say "NO" He thinks it is funny....I started putting him down if I am holding him, I tell him "NO" and then I turn away from him and ignore him. When I pick him back up a few minutes later, he goes for it again right away! He seems to be a bit HARD HEADED. I think it is going to take a bit more than scolding or ignoring him to get through. He was actually biting me every time he nursed, this went on for a week causing great anxiety for me. I finally did have to give him a little swat on the leg to get his attention, believe me after a week of having your NIPPLE bit, you have to do something to get their attention. Guess what? It worked he has not bitten me since...

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• 09-15-2009 1:51 PM

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  Ursula3364676 Joined on 09-15-2009 Posts 3

  Re: help with baby Reply Contact I have 3 sons. All off them tried this with me ones! Only ones! Why? And this may seem cruel, but it works like a charm! I did it back to them. If they bit me I bit back. If they hit me I hit back, if the scratch I scratch back. And do this not so hard as to really harm them but almost as hard as they did. You see a child only learns concrete at this age. They do not yet get the abstract. They can not imagine how it feels until they have felt it themselves. My child sociologist also recommended this. It will probably break your hard to do this, but sometimes being a mother and ensuring your child becomes a respectable adult, is plain and simple hard and crappy work!