Throw Things On The Floor
It s just experimental play.
Throw things on the floor. 2 year olds are just starting to push buttons and see what they can and can t do you just have to patiently try to. My 13 month throws toys books food and there is no malice. As a baby grows she will gain more and more independence. For less then a minute of course but he generally then helps me pick up whatever it was that he threw.
He could be doing it for fun too. Surely your child has surprised you on several occasions with their baseball player type skills throwing everything they have within reach to the ground. Once he learns to throw things he could enjoy watching them bounce off floors or splatter on walls. Throwing things is a new and enjoyable skill for many children between 18 months and 3 years of age.
If you throw your book on the floor and don t implicitly tell us where it ended up we will immediately assume it s still on the floor. Most babies walk after they become good at crawling. This means that he will drop or throw things purposely to see what happens after he lets go such as following the motion of his teddy bear as he flies out of the crib so that he can watch him land on the floor. Your baby will pull himself up from the floor to stand against a sofa a table or you.
Then discard the outdated business card ones the save the date ones and the ones with last year s calendar. If he doesn t help me pick it up i make him stand in the corner. Similarly if i throw my clothes at the floor on my way to the shower it implies that i really don t care where they landed. Make a safe clean area on the floor for him to practice crawling.
The attention he gets after could also be another reason he does it more often. Do you want to know why they do this. To a certain extent i think there is no harm in throwing things. He will then move along the furniture supporting himself against it.
Babies go through a phase in which their best ability is to throw everything on the floor. It takes fine motor skills to open the fingers and let go of an object and considerable hand eye coordination to actually throw it. They may have ended up on the back of a chair or on the dog laying in the corner. Before associating hitting and throwing things with behavioural problems in your toddler take the time to assess the situation.
When my 2 year old throws things on the floor i make him help me pick it up and tell him that it s not nice. She likes to watch things drop to the floor she likes to see how far she can throw she likes to see what noise things will make when they land. Crawling is the most popular way for babies this age to get around. Throw away the ones with weak magnets that keep falling off onto the floor.
Perhaps at first you believed this to be an act of rebellion or an action they use to get your attention.