So my problem is this, my son Terry is 21 months old. He is at an age now where he is doing things intentionally that he knows that he is not aloud to do. Example being, he climbs up on the couch and grabs the sconces on the wall. I know that he knows better because when I say no he will grin and do it more but the second that i start his direction, he lets go, climbs down and runs. lol. I tried putting him in "time out", which is a playpen in the living room. But that didn't work because he likes it in there. lol. Then after failed attempts with time outs, one day I tapped his hand and he laughed, and I'm not willing to smack his hand hard, so that won't work.
Because my son has no verbal communication, its hard to know exactly what he does and doesn't understand. Because of that, i tend to only say "no" and distract him from whatever he is doing, but thats not working anymore. Now he has started climbing on the kitchen table CONSTANTLY. It doesn't matter if I stand there and take him back down out of the chair 50 times, he thinks that is funny too, so he just keeps doing it. Can anyone give me any ideas?
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