Toddler Behavior

[playfelt]

I know how we would have dealt with this kind of behaviour back in my day, lol, but.....be sure that your tone of voice is making him know for sure that what he is doing is wrong. You will need to be physical with him in some way because it sounds like he has been yelled at so much that words have just become noise to him and he totally ignores it. When he hits, grab his hand and physically hold him and speak to him while you are holding (you will be behind more than likely and will be speaking directly into his ear - little distractive noise will be there). He thinks the time outs for hurting friends is funny because there is no real consequence for hurting.

Obviously since this is a change in behaviour there is something that triggered it. It could be a change of kids/age mix in the daycare, something going on at home - parents arguing more or he has overheard something and maybe misinterpreted. You say you see these people outside of daycare. There is then a familiarity the child has with you such that he will try things he does at home where another child might not.

[FS2011]

Playfelt you may be on to something there, now that you mention it...since our big outing a couple weekends ago his behavior has got much worse. Hmmm maybe he has just lost respect from that?