Terrible Twos

My son just urned too as well and he as well - accordign to the doctor - had speech problems. He can say a few words but it seems he should say 2 word sentences by now. ..he says " drink" and he shoudl say " drink milk " it seems He is also quite facetious and has a hard time listening to me. What I found out would work best with him is : -Never to punish him in anger, each time he "misbehaves" , I try to stay calm , make eye contact (very important) and explain to him briefly what he did wrong and why he gets a time out. He wont understand the first tim emore likely but I noticed that with my son - i f I stay very consistant (meaning EACH AND EVERYTIME he even starts to do the same thing I pick him up, give him the explanation then the time out, after about 15 times he will register that I really dotn want him to do that. SO yes it is time and energy consuming and you have to be really consistant ( and it s the hardest part for us parents because sometimes if we are tired e just "let it go" ... so what I do ...because I can say no all the time... I choose my battles. I focus on a few things I really do not want him to do (usually dangerous things) and i implement those first and let the rest go ... and dont think that because he ant speak yet that he doesnt understand, he understands you , so speak to him , calmly It took tim ewith mine but it s starting to come accross Good luck to you

I babysit a 2 yr old who sounds like your son. He comes over here just once a week because his mom really doesn't need a sitter, but she needs a break. I can tell you to stay strong in your decisions. Don't yell when putting your child in time out, talk to him and explain things to him. Just yesterday this little boy came in with 2 boxes of tic taks. I told him that he could have 2 of the candies and then he had to put them with his coat. He threw a fit! I just calmly took the tictacs from him, handed him two and put the others away. He kept screaming no no, give back. I just ignored this behavior and in about 3 minutes he was up and eating those 2 tictacs. I then explained to him that we would save the others for him to have when mommy comes. His mom couldn't believe that I didn't give in...that is the problem in her case, she give in and this teaches him nothing.