Ideas on How to Stop 20 Month from Throwing

[wahmof3]

This is a new area for me: 20 month old throwing toys.... ALL THE TIME.

DCB throws toys when he is mad and when he is just playing. When he isn't throwing the toys are in his mouth.

Currently when he does this I show him the toy & tell him no throwing toys & after the 1st offense he takes a break from the toys. I feel like a broken record. He is a wonderful child, I just wish I could break this!

Any ideas??????? I've never had a constant toy thrower

[daycare]

This is a new area for me: 20 month old throwing toys.... ALL THE TIME.

DCB throws toys when he is mad and when he is just playing. When he isn't throwing the toys are in his mouth.

Currently when he does this I show him the toy & tell him no throwing toys & after the 1st offense he takes a break from the toys. I feel like a broken record. He is a wonderful child, I just wish I could break this!

Any ideas??????? I've never had a constant toy thrower

give him toys that he cant pick up and throw...ones that are too heavy.

If he gets a small toy to throw, catch him in the act, catch his hand and say NO, gentle hands. So him how to play with it.

When my 20 month old was doing that I would take the toys away and say NO. Then I would move on to something else with him. Read a book, play with puppets...somthing like that..

[nannyde]

He needs to only have lightweighted stuff available. I would do cloth books, rags, cloth toys etc. in a play yard and any time he threw inside the house he would go into the play zone with things that don't fly well.

They give you a lot of "tells" before they throw so you need to work on recognizing the root behavior so you can do a warning. One is nothing above the shoulders... do FLOOR BASED PLAY at all times (meaning he plays off the floor), and no carrying around anything cumbersome.

Just watch him for what he does BEFORE he throws and start correcting that. If he does it quickly then scoop him up..... tell him "no throw" and then put him in a play yard with soft no throw well toys.

[Crystal]

" I cannot let you throw toys because you might hurt someone. BUT, I CAN let you throw balls, let's go get some balls!"

or something similiar. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME that he throws a toy.

[daycare]

" I cannot let you throw toys because you might hurt someone. BUT, I CAN let you throw balls, let's go get some balls!"

or something similiar. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME that he throws a toy.

you know whats funny...I used to do this all of the time. I had some cool light weight bean bags that stuck to a target... As soon as I told the kid it was ok to throw them all of a sudden they didn't want to do it anymore....It was too funny...

Gotta love it..

BUT this does work....I used to think for all we know he could be the next Major league pitcher. But if we don't let him explore his desire to throw, he will never know.... Im a nut.

[wahmof3]

Thanks for the great responses!

I am going to section off an area of the playroom w/ my play yard and put some no throw toys in it.

I can already read some of his triggers:

1. If he is suddenly upset he will pick up the closest thing to him & wing it.

2. I know by his body language when he is getting ready to chuck the little people (or whatever is in hand) across the room. So I will continue to react as soon as I see the trigger.

And when we have our outside time he can throw the balls as much as he wants