Take the 2-minute tour ×  My son is two and a half years old and
is not in general of the violent type. However he regularly
enjoys showing "cruelty". By that I mean that regularly when he
"by accident" (let's stay positive) hits someone or some stuffed
animal and we tell him that he shouldn't do it, or to be careful
because it hurts, he just laughs and starts doing it even more.
This never escalates very far since we don't let him continue
for long, but it still worries me that he seems to enjoy so much
somebody else's pain. Any suggestions?  share|improve this
question I don't think he understands that it hurts someone else
(because to understand that you have to understand that it is
someone else, and for that you have to understand that you are
someone, and you don't do that at two and a half). Also, stuffed
animals does not scream. But that said, I would also be worried
in your situation, regardless that he doesn't understand that it
hurts. –  Lennart Regebro Jun 28 '11 at 8:32 I think he does
understan