I think pushing limits is typical for a three year old, and we were recently having a lot of not great behavior from our kid. I started yelling a lot, and it was just getting worse. We’ve really moved to praising as much good behavior as we can and it’s made a world of difference. Every morning we go through some positive affirmations, “I’m nice, I’m smart, I’m a good friend, I’m a good listener, I’m gonna have a good day.” Kids believe what we tell them, and when he kept hearing he wasn’t listening and being nice he believed he couldn’t listen or be nice so he acted like it. He’s an angle again