Hello,
My toddler is VERY violent. I mean really violent. He's only 2.5 yrs old yet he tries to choke my mom, steps on my parents while sleeping, jumps on my mom's legs (and this hurts my mom so much since her legs already hurt her). He wakes them up every morning by punching them, stepping on them, biting them, and doing all the violent behavior you can think of. He even throws things on us. I'm even afraid that one day he'll poke one of our eyes out...that's how violent he is.
We don't know how to make him stop. Nothing helps. I put him in the playpen as a time out (since that's the only place he can't get out of yet) and he just starts jumping on the playpen and it's almost going to break, leaving us with nothing to put him in as a time out.
What do I do? This is really concerning me. we haven't had a good night's sleep because of his violent way of waking us up at dawn.
His crib is in my parents' room since they sleep early (as a way to make him sleep early and I dont sleep early becuase the only time I can do anything is when he's asleep!!!), but he just spends the night jumping on them and pulling their hair while they are sleeping.
Any suggestions?
Thx