He is driving me crazy! Every time I ask him to do anything, he just ignores me. Things like get your coat, shoes, don't touch that its hot, pick that up, you can have x after we have done y, please tell me if you need the potty etc. He also gets put in the corner if he hits DD too many times.
I started asking him why he was in the corner, he says "hug". I say to him "you are in the corner because you hit DD. why are you in the corner?" He says "hug". I ask him several times to do something but he just ignores me. I ask him to look at me (which usually involves me putting my face between him and what he is trying to do) and tell him again. Then ask him what I just told him. He has no idea. Surely by now he should be able to follow an instruction and repeat (I'm not expecting verbatim!) what I said to him several times over the past minute or so.
Argh, he really is annoying me. I know his hearing is ok because he can hear me quietly opening a packet of biscuits from the other side of the flat, his memory seems to be ok as he can remember things he wants to remember. Like that DH promised on Friday to take him out in the snow at the weekend (at 6 am on saturday morning he was sitting on my pillow thumping DH on the head saying "snow, snow" ).
I'm actually beginning to wonder if he understands anything I say. But then I think he must understand me. Any advice?
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Am I expecting too much of my 3 year old?
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PoisonMountain · 05/12/2012 07:41
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