He is 15 months old and has been hitting everyone, sometimes with his hand and sometimes with heavy stuff that hurts. We usually grab his hand and say "NO, THAT HURTS" but it’s just not working. It’s been going on for a while now. He also does everything we tell him NO to. Like emptying the culligan water machine, climbing on the table, throwing things at people, banging on laptops, and digging in the garbage. A week ago he went up to a stranger at the park and started throwing sand at her. Another time a couple months ago he ran into a baby in a pet store and tried to hit her in the face. A few days ago I was talking to my Grandma for 45 seconds and in that time my son had grabbed my phone off the bathroom sink and put it in the toilet. Needless to say, I’m now without a phone. From what I understand all this behavior is normal (basically) but I’ve never been around any other kids so I’m not sure. Could you tell me from experience if this is normal? How do you teach your kids to behave? It just seems to be getting worse. Thanks for all suggestions and answers!
Now I feel bad reading this. My son isn’t a monster, he is USUALLY a little angel. Smiling, snuggling, and on the move. But we have around 10 episodes like I explained every day.
He can’t talk yet, so it’s hard.
Just thought I’d add that my Mom wonders why he started hitting. He doesn’t see anyone getting hit (violently, at least). Sometimes there’s rough housing, like wrestling, and his uncle is 12 and gives playful punches to us, but not him.
There are 3 laptops in the house, 2 are kept on the table. He pulls out the chairs and climbs up onto the table. He can open them and everything. And the toilet thing my mom got on me about too. She said he could have drowned lol. No, I was getting ready for us to take a shower, I had the water running and everything. My grandma came over to drop something off so I met her in the hallway with the bathroom just feet away. He pulled a slick one. And the garbages are hard to hide. I try to keep them in the entry way put people do need to use them lol. I do remove him, but he runs right back!! You not having these problems has me worried that this might not be normal. I’m not sure who I should talk to about these problems.
lol no marie I am not a spanker or a hand swatter. So I don’t know where he picked up the hobby of hitting.

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I am replacing my old water softener with salt in it. Shall I put the salt in a garbage bag or flush it in the kitchen sink?

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I had recently bought a house and it has a water softener that I don’t need any more. The garbage people won’t take it until its entirely empty, what how am i going to get the water out because i have no idea at all.
after I let it sit on its side their will be a ton of salt on the inside so yea….
also if i choose to empty it another way would it explode like on mythbusters or somthing?

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It smells like my garbage! And no I did not put the bottles in the trash before I drank them.

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I have a Pur water filter pitcher with a relatively new filter (1 month or so). The water that has passed through, however, looks clear and fine, yet smells like rotten garbage. I tried emptying the pitcher and running water through the filter, but when I filled it again, it smelled just as bad. My water has been fine since I started using the pitcher a year ago until now. Obviously, I just bought a new filter today, but was there something preventable I could have done? I don’t know what could have caused this to happen.
I already ran a few pitchers full and they were fine. Like I said, the filter’s a month old. This problem suddenly popped up after a few weeks of drinking water from it that was fine.

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I need to make one for Science class, with only materials that are usually found at home. I cannot add chemicals to the treatment process. No one is going to be drinking the water. The purification system should be able to remove garbage (leaves, rocks, wrappers) and clean the colour of the water, somewhat, so that the end product is a beaker of water that has no garbage in it, and somewhat clear. Like I said before, no chemicals, and no one is going to be drinking it.

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Than plastic bottles when you can recycle the plastic bottles but have to toss the Brita filters in the garbage?

Does somewhere recycle Brita filters?

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