How do you discipline throwing

I am kinda at a loss on this one. We are throwing our toys all the time and sippy cups from the highchair. Any suggestions. Thanks.

 

What worked for mine was clear rules about throwing and giving acceptable alternatives. For instance: no throwing in the house. You can throw balls outside, at the park. You can throw rocks in to the lake/ocean. You can throw a frisbee. Whatever is ok for you and your family. If they throw sippy cups, the sippy cups go to the kitchen since they are obviously finished. If they throw a toy, the toy goes away. And I'd offer "Maybe you'd like to go in the backyard and throw something where you're allowed to throw?" Throwing is fun, so is soccer -- just not in the house! Good luck

 

I do not really even belong on this board yet so I am sure others have better advice; however, Jack and Lily are 11 months and 3 weeks and they are into throwing things off of their high chair. If they throw it once they get it back but if they throw it twice they do not get it back. Sometimes I just leave whatever it is on the ground so they can see that it does not magically get put back in their hands and I will just smile and sweetly say "We do not throw our cups on the ground". I really try to not make a very big deal about it and they usually only enjoy doing things that get a response from mommy so they get bored of it soon.

As far as throwing sippys, etc... during mealtime I have really tried not to comment on some of their more rud mealtime behaviors (ie. dd shoving everything into her mouth and then opening her mouth and letting it all fall out) and the more annoying habits seem to stop themselves.

 

Ditto the others... "We don't throw trucks, we throw a ball," and then I hand them a ball. I have some little plastic balls that won't hurt anything no matter how hard they are thrown and allow those to be thrown indoors.

 

My ds is older and we let him have small soft balls inside to throw as a baby and younger toddler, but now I wish we would have had the rule of throwing balls is only for outside. He is bigger now and can do some damage with those soft small balls! So at 2 1/2 we are having to remind him to roll balls inside and no trowing. Only outside. You can always allow certain balls inside to throw to help make a distinction between what is an acceptable toy to throw, but it becomes hard for a toddler to understand that 'this" ball is okay to throw inside... but "this other ball" is not okay to throw inside.

Also, if he throws a toy we say no trowing and we put the toy in a box in the garage. He knows it is not acceptable so there is no warning... immediate consequence. If he does not throw anything for a day, he can pick something out of the box to bring back inside. Yours may be a bit to young for that, but a similar concept will work... just take it away for a bit and remind, remind, remind... no throwing, etc.