Omg. On top of being 37 weeks pregnant and having pregnancy pains and I still have to cook, clean, run errands and take care of a toddler. I have to do it all with no help because I’m a stay at home mom and family lives far away and husband works. Anyways this is not what I’m complaining about. I’m used to all of this. But my toddler who will be 2 in October. Does not listen. I tired so many ways to punish him. Nothing works. He’s so bad and throws tantrums when we are at the store. He runs away from me at the park. He’s not scared of anything and I mean anything. Today I had enough. He watches tv when I’m busy cleaning or cooking and today while he was watching tv he threw a hair brush at it and broke it. Its an expensive tv and it’s not something we can just easily replace. Which I will not replace until him and his brother learn how to communicate with me. I was so mad. Because of my pregnancy Hormones I couldn’t stop crying. Like why doesn’t he listen and behave. He loves to just brake stuff. Today will be the last day he would watch tv. There will be no screen time ever. I think maybe that’s the reason he’s like that.. from the tv. I’m so done. I tried so many things but this and hopefully this works. How do you punish your toddler and how do you get them to listen to you. (By punish I mean a little spank on the hand, telling him no, time out, and getting on his level and talking to him as to why he can’t do that) when the tv broke I hit him on his hand and told him “no we don’t throw things” and put him in his room for time out because I needed to be alone for a little bit. Please I need your advice on how to control him and start to make him communicate with me. It would make things so much easier on me.