Well i am still getting no from my to boys  evrey now and again , but thats part of them growing up and like someone else said wait  until they start saying why  can't i do it mum , the other one is my friends are , how  come i can't  go  or why can't i play longer . Yes then comes thoses teenages years where they ready try you out . Thats when you ready need to be one step ahead of things .

As a childcare worker we have been taught that we are not allowed to teach the children the word no, we have to teach them to say please stop I do not like it and also use this when they are doing something that we do not like. In some ways this is a pain as a lot of the children I work with have limited volcublary and no is much easier to say and some of them understand no far better than please stop I do not like it. All children go through the no stage, at the moment it is just another word to your child at the moment and even if we do not like using it all the time we have to be patient as they will grow out of this stage.

I am currently going through this stage at the moment with my daughter who is nearly 2.
She is also going through the why stage!
I think they do it to test your patience and to try push the boundaries just that little bit further!

With my daughter i just giggle at her and say "you're a little cheeky chops aren't you" give her a big grin and walk away....ignoring it as much as possible!

I think that for toddlers they learn to say no first because it seems like we are forever telling them " no you can't touch this, or no you can't have that" rather than "yes you can have this"

Thats my belief and i am sticking to it! heheheh (i am open minded though)

Hi there,

Mmmm i remember the NO stage and i thought it would never end . . . . . . . Wish i could give you a tip but there really wasnt anything that help except to ignore it . .

BUT my bit of advice is to learn how to ignore it as best you can as the next stage is "WHY" and the WHY stage drove me totally nuts!

sorry i couldn't be of more help . . .  Cheers Kellz