So we had friends over the other night and their DC has just got 2 teeth through so we were saying 'ooh just wait for the biting to start!' as we have a DC a bit younger it's obviously on my mind this will be something we will probably have to deal with. Anyway, the DH says 'I'll bite DC back. I've done it before and it works.' to which DW says 'yes I've already pulled her hair to teach her not to pull mine'.
I was 'wtf?!' but didn't say anything as I was a bit shocked and their parenting is quite different to ours.
I'm just not into this kind of punishment for kids, I'd rather try to teach DC its wrong and not to do it rather than 'I can bit harder than you'. Am I alone in thinking this? I also felt a bit that I couldn't say 'oh no that's not what we'll be doing'. Don't really know why. They think we're a bit 'woo' anyway as we ebf and DC still sleeps in our room (5momths).
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I don't want to bite my baby
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aimingtobeaperfectionist · 26/10/2012 08:57
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