Recently our two year old has been testing his limits😅 with most things we have a pretty good system of “discipline” and ways of dealing with big feelings, but I’ll give an example of the type of behavior that I’m struggling with.

This mostly happens when’s he’s over excited and maybe overstimulated, plus tired. So maybe I need to find ways to get the energy out another way or switch to a calmer activity?? Any ideas for that welcome too, because I’m really not sure.

So one example is splashing like a crazy person in the bath, soaking the floor and even splashing me. He’ll laugh and think it’s funny. Usually for “bad” behaviors I distract or redirect (you can do small splashes or you can splash the wall but not the floor, or hey look at this other cool bath toy), or we have a somewhat natural consequence (ending bath time) but none of this has worked. I’ve also tried ignoring the behavior- that sometimes helps a little but usually he just starts yelling to get my attention and gets upset, which then can turn into a huge tantrum on top of it. I also try to explain why we don’t splash big on the floor and I’ve tried to explain that when we’re out of the situation and he’s calmer, but he still will do the same thing the next night during bath. I’ve also tried prepping him before bath to say that we don’t splash mom or the floor, if we do then bath is all done.