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Behavioral biting/scratching/hair pulling

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Twogirls2 · 31/07/2014 13:39

Please help. My 18month has been scratching/biting/hair pulling for 6 months at nursery/at home/in public. Randomn attacks daily when she is happy playing she will lean over and bite or scratch, when she meets a new child, the same. She will lean over a scratch me when we are reading/cuddling. Got a baby due in 2 weeks! There doesn't seem to be any trigger despite all friends/family/nursery observing. Will she have behavior problems when she is older? We tell her no biting, tried time out for months, tried cuddling instead. Am list at what to do

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Twogirls2 · 31/07/2014 13:47

Am lost at what to do. Feel like I can't take her out anymore. If we go to the park, she scratches other children playing, at the shops in the trolley, will lean over and pull someone's hair. At play date, will rugby tackle child to floor and bite. Apart from that, she is a happy, clever, pleasant, affectionate girl but this is happening several times a day. Nursery are struggling to cope and think she will be excluded.