needing advice, suggestions

[pennidymock]

Hey all,
my son has just hit 2 years old, and has started to say NO to everything i tell him to do (he'll still do what i ask, just he hesitates and says no over and over again). So, just a quick Q....

How did you handle your child when they started to say no to you?

and how did you get them to stop saying it?

I'm stumped at the moment. We do a gentle smack on the bum when he says it, and that stops it for an hour or so, but it just starts up again. Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated! (but please, nothing about how smacking is bad... because thats just a joke to me).

[bigglet]

Saying no is kinda a phase especially when they learn it for the first time. They will say no to you even when they mean yes.

I just mainly ignored the no's and after a while it ceased when my DD started developing higher language skills and more words. Sounds like your son is still doing what you ask but just is experimenting.

The other thing is to stop saying no yourself. Hard initially but try to use other words instead like if you don't want them doing something say Stop instead of No. Use a lot more positives in sentences like if they want something and you don't want them to have it yet instead of saying No or Don't you could say "Yes but first we have to do this xxx" and so on. And distraction helps a lot as well.