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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son turned 2 last month has become increasingly mean and angry. He's been more fussy/emotional since birth compared to my now 4 year-old son. My older son was a bit of an anomaly as he never had temper tantrums, never had a "no" phase, always happy and somehow learned all his numbers/letters/colors/shapes before he was 2. My 2 year-old is a bit behind verbally but not enough to qualify for any services, he angrily refuses to learn anything, hits, sometimes bites. He will pick up the NoNo/YesYes book, open it to the pg where there's a baby hitting another kid and start hitting the kid too. It's like his default mood is angry. We make sure to praise him a ton when he does something good but he doesn't care. We don't hit and very rarely raise our voices in our family so we're just kind of besides ourselves with him. He hates whenever we try to show him anything and he usually just angrily shouts jibberish at us. He can also be very sweet and loving but most of the time he's so mean. My older son was trying to play peekaboo with him today and my little guy bit through the curtain so hard that he bit a hole though it! He used to like other kids and now he cries or ignores them mostly. To be clear, I see no red flags for anything like autism, nor does his daycare provider or pediatrician.

I guess my question is if this is fairly normal or should we be pushing harder for some kind of services for him? He's turned into such a bully, beyond what I would consider normal for a "terrible 2" [/quote]

In addition to the frustration from his speech, he probably senses that you're judging him against his other brother and is coming up very short.  Just stop the comparing already.[/quote]

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