How do you get my 9 1/2month old girl to stop hitting when she gets excited is it something i should worry bout bc she dont do it all the time just when she gets excited is this normal?

Babies don't understand what hitting is. She is just communicating her excitement. My daughter pats things when she is happy, and occasionally she will bite us on the shoulder. What we do is tell her it hurts and express our distress. We very calmly explain that it is not nice to bite. Then we warn her not to bite again or she will be put down. I would say don't worry about the hitting. Just keep explaining to your daughter that it is not nice and hurts.

ok thank you thats what i have been doing.

My 9 1/2 month old son does the same thing... He isnt hitting, like you said he is wxpressing his excitement. If you try to get them to stop I feel like they may get the message that it is not okay to get excited. Or feel like they are getting in trouble for showing enthusiasm.

I just make sure I always say gentle hands any time he is being rough on accident. Weather he is pulling my hair, or "giving kisses" but really biting, or scratching, I just take his hand and say gentle and move his hand either over my hair softly, or over my arm gently and consistantly repeat gentle hands.  I also try to hold him on my hip facing out, so that when he gets excited, he is waving his hands through the air instead of me being in the way and him hitting me in the face...

Oh ok yeah i hold my daughter like too they might but boy can they be strong. It amazes me how strong they can be.

My son is only 6 months old and he is a pretty big boy for his age.  Sometimes he's thought to be about a year old.  Needless to say he's a strong little boy and does he ever hit when he's excited.  I wear glasses when my contacts aren't in and he's knocked them off a few times.  I just tell him that's not nice and tell him I know he's happy but he doesn't need to hit to get my attention.  I know he probably doesn't understand but consisitancy is the best for babies, I've learned.  I think once they are a year old, they understand a lot more and if he still "hits" I would try to somehow make it a bit more clear to him that it hurts you and it's not nice.  Good luck mama!  I'm going through the same thing! :)

Crystal

Thank you very much my baby girl is really big to and strong. She is so stuborn to lol. I wear glasses to and recently had to get new ones bc she pulledd on the all the time and broke them but they were old anyways and needed new ones but didnt really have the money so was making do. You know how that is.