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My son is 23 months as well and we have a newborn so first off, solidarity mama 💪🏻! He mostly hits me, husband, or grandmas. I haven’t seen him hit any other kids yet. But we just get down to his level and try and get him to look at us and firmly say “gentle hands” and have him show us how he can be gentle. We had to physically make him do gentle hands the first few weeks. It’s tough but he has definitely slowed down. Also we try to focus on the trigger. Like when he is more tired he is definitely more prone to hitting and we try to catch him before he does it. So maybe try and see what the trigger is when he is with the little girl? We also use distractions a lot. Obviously I am not an expert but it’s what we have been doing! GOOD LUCK! 😭
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My son is 23 months and lately he has started hitting or lashing out at the little girl we have play dates with once a week. Is this something you are dealing with? Or any suggestions as to how to discourage this behavior? I try to stay on top of him and intervene asap but with a newborn it's hard to be 100% vigilant. Help please
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Totally sounds like it could be her crying and yelling! So that’s hard cause you can’t really control that 😂
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Thank you for sharing what you are doing! Yes, I try to catch his hands and show him how to do "nice touches" as we call them here but I am not quite sure what the trigger is with the other kid. She is quite whiney and vocal so when she begins to act out is generally when the hitting begins so not sure if the crying and yelling stresses him out or what
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