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My son really didn't start to push his boundaries until late two into three and he was deep in it during the middle of his third year.
He is just now starting to stop the real testing, but those days are not over.
But, we are a special case.
With my illness he has some problems other kids don't have and a lot more people that he directly answers to.
In a lot of ways this helps, he has to learn that he has to obey different people different ways.
The down side is that he has learned that, with some things, if he is just patient, he can get his way if he just waits until he finds someone to say "yes". This bites him on the ass though, because when he gets caught doing this he gets in major trouble.
I've had to learn to be VERY creative with him, especially around one and two (he is four now), because I could not just pick him up and make him do what I wanted or go where I liked, nor did we practice corporal punishment.
It was challenging but VERY rewarding when we, he and I, developed the relationship that worked for us both.
He eats when he is hungry.
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