Originally Posted by MsJoy:
Thank you for the suggestions. I will try more time out, I suppose. I do use her pack and play there's no way I could get her to sit still against the wall as I do with my son.
I like the ideas for food. Today I just fed her the yogurt myself after the first throwing of it this morning. I like to give kids the benefit of the doubt, but honestly, I've seen her throw her food and then laugh about it. And I'm running out of clean rags!
What's strange is that even though she's 18 months, I feel like she's not understanding me or hearing me. She's very smart, it's not like it's a developmental thing. It's just that she won't make eye contact when I'm correcting her, or if she does she's just smiling and laughing. Not sure what that's all about, but I will continue to use time out and taking away food/drinks that are deliberately thrown. Hopefully she'll get the idea.
Thank you again!
Ms.Joy if you use a chair or mat like I use the naughty mat for time out they are more then likely to stay there and a timer works great because they will learn they can not get up till they hear the ring from the timer. Trust me the 18 month old knows I have a 14 month old who was misbehaving pretty bad for a week because Grandma was visiting and he could do whatever he wanted well once I stuck the the punishment for said crimes he has been great they learn pretty quick.