I know my three year old is just going through some phase....

[Factorymomma]

But it is literally driving my dh and I over the edge.  He will do something we don't approve of, so we'll pull him from what he's doing and nicely say,"we don't do that, please stop".  He'll turn around and do it again, blatantly.  We'll give him a time out and again tell him not to do what he is doing because it's not appropriate.  He'll do it again!!! We'll get a little more stern with our voice, and time out again.  Over and over and over!!!  It's not like we ignore him!  We play with him all day until he goes to bed at night, but it's like all of a sudden everything we have told him is a "no no" is free game! I've had to spank him because I caught him trying to open the oven while it was on!  He knows and has always followed a rule that you never get near the oven!   We're at our wits end and have found ourselves flying off the handle and just yelling because we just are so stressed out because his blatant disregard for everything we've taught him.  I know it has everything to do with all the changes around him ect.ect.  But my b/p has been skyrocketing because if his behavior.  

[buggie216]

Wait...tmr is friday...lol. Good Luck tmr!!!

[buggie216]

Everyone i know that has kids say terrible twos are nothing compared to three!! I have a two year old and i'll tell ya...i feel like a broken record always saying the same sh.it over and over and over and over...lol. Just keep being consistant...your doing it right...besides friday his whole world is gonna change and hopefully he redirects his energy to be mommies little helper!! :)

[sadies93]

It probably is just a phase, he may just realize that he can push your button and is testing how far he can push.

Goodluck with your c-section

[Factorymomma]

This behavior is literally just started in the past two weeks o.o
I really think it's a phase thing lol I just needed a vent.  Whew! Long day!  C-section friday at 0730! Yay!

[KellieSmith]

At three they are trying to figure out how they can get away with it but putting them in time out is not effective if they do not know exactly why they are not supposed to be doing that activity. Also the repetitiveness is just them trying to explore their environment and how everything be  works. Try taking things away because spankings shouldn't be used unless serious circumstance which was one with the oven. Also model exactly what you are teaching him or observe who he is around because he  might be picking up this behavior somewhere else. You also might have to limit playing with him because its hard from them to know the difference between when you are serious and when its time to play. Maybe he just need a sibling and it lonely but these are just ideas

[sadies93]

Just keep up the good work!
Maybe try rewarding the good behavior and focus less on the bad behavior. I dont have any kids but i had to deal with my nephew alot when he was 3 and his parents are very well lets say lazy and he didnt really have to mind them but at my house i made him mind. And he went thru a similar phase of just doing everything i said not to and so when he behaved and did something i tried rewarding him or paying extra attention to him and what a good thing he did and stuff like that and then when it came to the bad things he did then he would get his warning and then i would try to shift his attention to something else and if he done it again then got a time out and i would calmly explain why it was wrong for him to do that and then try to shift his attention to something else again.
And even tho this helped me deal with him, and it seemed to help me out alot, he still would do stuff he knew he wasnt susposed to but it wasnt as bad.

I wish you the best of luck, toddlers can deff be a hand full. Like i said im expecting my first child but i felt like i should share my experiences that ive had with my nephew