Child attacking?
Hey guys, my daughter is 21 months. Me and her dad are having a repeated issue the past 3-4 months and I’m looking for some advice on it.
My fiancée aka her dad is amazing and I mean he truly is a beautiful parent he’s kind caring fun loving the whole packing honestly, and truly is an awesome person. The issue is my daughter has started doing this thing where she grabs onto faces and I don’t mind like a little grab I mean will grab and squeeze so hard it cuts/bleeds after she’s done grabbing. She will squeeze extremely hard. This sometimes happens when she’s upset or trying to regulate her emotions we handle it by removing her hand and explaining to her that what’s she doing hurts and isn’t nice. She is only doing this to me and my partner but honestly mostly him she will do it to him atleast 3 times daily but with me only maybe once a week, we both deal with it the same way and honestly he has the patience of a saint because it really really hurts.
I’m trying to understand how we can stop this from happening and it doesn’t matter how many times we try and explain she just keeps doing it to him.
It’s breaking my heart seeing this keep happening and even worse so for him, he’s at the point he’s not even upset about it anymore he’s just hurt and confused on why she keeps doing it.
A pattern I’ve noticed with her when she does it to him is that for example they can be playing normally then her face just goes blank and she attacks it can literally be out of no where.
I’m just looking for some advice or maybe if anyone is dealing with this them self’s? Is it just the age? Should we be doing more in telling her off? Are we too clam about? I honestly don’t know I will say she does not do it to anyone else but us, not her grandparents family or kids when we are out.
All advice is open at this point.