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[quote=Anonymous]Sometime when everything is calm, talk to your husband about the fact that toddlers understand what we’re saying before they can talk, and they can understand tone. He’s talking to your baby like he’s thinks he’s talking to a lower life form that can’t understand what he’s saying. There are multiple issues with this.

1) You don’t want your son to internalize dad’s seemingly negative opinion of him and have poor self esteem

2) He’s modeling poor behavior for your son

3) You don’t want your son to talk to other people this way — and if your dh doesn’t knock it off, son will mimic it because that’s what little kids do

4) You don’t want frequent yelling and insults to affect how son feels about dh and impact their relationship negatively

5) Dh’s tactics are very hurtful to you because you do understand exactly what he’s saying about an innocent baby. Ask dh to think about how he’d feel if he slipped on ice and hurt himself and your response was to call him an effing idiot.

6) Now is the time to work on this impulse because your son will soon be bigger, faster, stronger and more cunning than he is now, but he’s still got years ahead of him until he has decent judgment. He will be taking bigger risks and getting himself into more trouble. Your dh needs to develop better coping strategies as a parent.[/quote]

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