Where's the off switch?!

[chippyrabbit]

I 100% get the feeling, our little ones are similiar age so maybe its a stage? Please god let it be a stage!!

I wish i had some magic answer for you, i think cause they are at that inbetween baby and toddler age trying to reason with them is super frustrating

[Arcadia]

Having lived through the toddler stage with dd I can say 15 months was one of the worst stages for us. They just turn into toddler all of a sudden and you're so unprepared! Once I worked out how to set boundaries with her, things improved a lot and tbh she is one of the best behaved toddlers/pre schoolers I know, but she also isn't as high energy as others so that helps.

With the scratching etc, I enforce gentle hands, so if you're carrying dd around and she hits, you give her one warning. 'Uh uh uh hitting hurts, gentle hands please' and get her hands and stroke your face gently. Then if she hits again, you put her on the floor. And repeat 'hitting hurts, gentle hands please'. Then I usually say 'do you want to come up?' and usually they do, so then I get them to show me gentle hands, and put my hand out for them to stroke gently. You'll have to show her how at first, and get her hand and stroke yours. Only once they have shown gentle hands can they come up. Then repeat ad nauseum until she gets the idea that being in your arms means being gentle. It's been about a month of doing this consistently with ds 15 months) and he's stopped pinching and hitting etc.

Dd used to pull my hair in bed so I did the same thing with her, but placing her on the floor out of the bedroom when she did it, and telling her it hurt...and that only gentle hands are allowed in our bed. I then made her stroke my hand gently 'show me gentle hands' often doing it for her (ie taking her hand in mine and stroking it gently). Only then could she come back up.

As for things like tissues, I stopped buying them because I got jack of the million tissues on the floor.

I would suggest you create a special drawer for her to unpack, full of plastics and crap, and so then when she starts destroying your drawers, you say 'uh uh uh that's mummy's drawer, where's amelia's drawer?' and show her her own drawer. I do this with books too. I'm obsessed with my bookshelves, so I got a basket of kids books and put it next to the bookshelf, so if ds touches my books, I say 'uh ub uh mummy's books, where are Jimmy's books?'. This worked a treat with both my kids, and after a few days left my books alone.

Sorry for the essay. I just wanted to help you out if I could.

I also recommend looking into swimming or another tiring activity for her, so you don't have her climbing furniture so much. Maybe you could take her to a toddler gym and show her how to climb, so when she climbs at home, you can say 'uh uh uh climbing is for gym...'

Good luck