My son is almost 4 and we live in an upstairs apartment. We’ve gotten knocks from below multiple times, always for him stomping, never just for kid noises and regular nonsense but because he will STOMP with his full body weight over and over. Once he did this at 5am in our bedroom and the apartments are styled the same way so he absolutely just woke them up and scared the hell out of them.
I’ve done everything, given more positive attention, distracted him, explained WHY we have to have kind and calm feet, take him outside to get his energy out, everything, but what really works is ignoring him, but I really can’t. The downstairs people below us basically always have someone home due to there being a disabled child with caregivers and their mom which makes me even more stressed out.
It’s honestly making my relationship with my kids more stressful because I have to be so on top of this all the time. No I cannot move, at least not for another year.
Lately specifically my son will stomp, or spill something, or make a giant mess and look at me and laugh and say “nanabooboo you’re not gonna get me” which is totally toddler attention seeking stuff and I won’t chase him, I just make him clean the mess and ignore it all, but I can’t ignore the stomping and it just reinforces it.