Ideal

I've found that one of the biggest struggles I have with my boys is keeping Ollie safe from Ladd.  There is a lot of intentional and accidental violence such as: wrestling, shoving, pinching, pushing Ollie off furniture, poking, leashing Ollie with anything he can lay his hands on and dragging him around like a puppy, drenching with water, tipping Ollie's booster and chair over (yes Ollie has been in it both times) smashing fingers in doors, etc.
Ollie isn't completely innocent he spits, hits, bites (I think he's outgrown this) and throws toys at all of us, but can you really blame him.  Honestly, Ollie inflicts enough pain on himself to be worried about permanent damage.  Just yesterday he repeatedly climbed on the couch and did head dives onto the wood floor just for fun.
The other day I had asked Ladd a billion times to stop touching (hurting) his brother, but he couldn't help himself.  The final straw was an innocent enough shove, but I couldn't take it anymore so I put Ladd in his room with some toys and told him to play by himself for awhile.  Shortly after, Ladd started crying under the door and pleading "Ollie come get me, Ollie come let me out, OLLIE!"  Ollie responded by going over to Ladd's bedroom door and they passed books under the door for about 20 minutes...... it was a nice 20 minutes.