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HI hun, don't worry i thinks most toddlers are like that, my Hannah knows she's not allowed to touch certain things but that doesn't stop her!!, when she;s really naughty we tell her she will go in her playpen if she still does it, and we give her another try and if she's still naughty we tell her off and put her in the playpen, obviously she doesn't want to go so she crys and rattles the bars, and after afew mins we get her out, sometimes she goes backt o it othertimes she doesn't. The other thing we do is we have a mat on the floor in the lounge, and if sh'e starting to be naughty we tell her to come back on the mat, and a lot of the time she now does though if she doesn't we tell her she'll gointhe playpen and often she will come back to the mat. It's taken months of perserverance and to be honest nothing is fall proof!!, so good luck hun and hang in there!! xxxx

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They definitely know what no means, they just like to push the boundaries! My 18 month old knows she's not allowed to touch certain things in nanny's house, and doesn't touch them. On the rare occasion she does touch them she always looks around first to make sure no-one is watching!
If she is playing with something she shouldn't have, tell her no, take it off her but replace it with something she can play with. Hope this helps!