OK.......how do others handle whinging/whining etc??? Jacob is being seriously full-on with this ATM. He's doing it practically all day long and throwing himself around if he doesn't get his own way or we don't understand him. I think a large part of the whining/whinging/screaching and tantrums is communication but boy......it's really draining.

He seems to need full-on stimulation and needs to burn energy every day in a big way but if it's belting down with rain I can't take him outside to run around and am stumped for ideas on how to burn that energy or direct it towards appropriate things for him that are inside.......

Also, Jacob keeps hitting us! We always tell him that we don't hit, that hitting hurts and try to explain to him that it's not how we solve problems and show him what we would like him to do instead of hitting, i.e. to touch softly. We also try to encourage him to kiss/cuddle afterwards and we always explain to him that if we hurt someone, we say sorry. But he still persists.......it's not like it hurts (and he only does it to us - he has never done it to anybody else) but I just find myself feeling angry at being hit by my own little boy IYKWIM!!!!

Any suggestions!?!? A bit PG and hormonal here too so finding the going a bit tough when combined with sleep deprivation too (another story LOL!)