Coming into his own

My sweet little Jacob....is not always as sweet as I'd like for him to be! LOL!

Truth is, the last few months have been filled with a lot of tantrums, and flat out breakdowns..from him...AND me! I guess it is the terrible two's. I was trying to ignore it, but I guess I can't. Although, I do have to say, it isn't near as bad as what I see on Nanny 911! I don't know what I would do if my children were like that...guess I'd call Nanny 911!

Sometimes I just don't know what to do. I don't particularly care for spanking, counting to three works pretty good, and if he doesn't stop whatever action he is doing by that time, I send him to his room and tell him not to come out until I get him. I close the door behind me. He never moves, and never tries to play with his toys. He is so upset that he has been taking out of the fun environment (meaning where everyone else is at) that he doesn't realize he's in his room. On occasion, he will come out. After his time out is up, I sit him on his toy box and explain to him what he did wrong, and why he got in trouble, and always end with " I love you" and a kiss.

He seems to respond to that really well. But there are other types of behavior that I am just at a loss for. Well, not completely...he has spouted out a few "bad words." Now, my husband and I are ordinary people, but on occasion words slip out that shouldn't. My husband lets him slip out a little more. But it doesn't matter, they shouldn't be said, especially around a 2-year-old, whose mind is absorbing EVERY thing it hears, and sees. Gosh, I just don't know what to do sometimes. And, sometimes, when he does something bad, he laughs at me, seriously, he LAUGHS from the BOTTOM OF HIS GUT!! He just makes me all the more mad! How do you control that??

I know it is all normal, but sometimes I ask myself if I am going to have a child with bad behavioral problems on my hands. Jacob probably won't be any different that any other kid out there, but sometimes, I just don't know what to do....or even how to do it!