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What to do when your toddler starts hitting herself
Some toddlers deliberately bash their heads or hit themselves for seemingly no reason. Don’t beat yourself up over this phase.
One night before dinner, Sarah Campbell asked her two-year-old, Scott, to
wash his hands. “He looked at me and, with an open hand, smacked his head,” she remembers. In the following weeks, Campbell noticed Scott was also striking himself when he was embarrassed. “When I picked him up early from daycare one afternoon, he got all shy and self-conscious and hit himself. The other kids thought it was funny, so he continued doing it,” she says.