Biting at nursery

[Bigshinyredbus]

AIBU to think if your child is badly bitten at nursery, you shouldn’t have to passively accept it because the biter might have underlying issues? And you have a right to complain?

Your child has the right to be safeguarded and unharmed. So I would raise it with the nursery, I wouldn’t complain unless they didn’t put something in place to protect my child

As a one off I'd ask what's being done to prevent it happening again.

My child was biten when she was 18 months old at nursery...it was on her face!! It was awful looking. The nursery never even contacted us about it just obviously seen it when we collected her. My husband picked her up that day so I called the following day to ask about it and find out what had happened. They just said the child that bit her had recently got a new sibling and was struggling to adjust??? As if that made it all ok! I asked what they were going to do and they just said they had given leaflets to the parents!? I was really annoyed at the time...luckily nothing happened again afterwards but it is upsetting...her face was a bruised mess for a while!

You can't complain about the child because, well, they're a child. They're still learning, they don't have full emotional control yet, they could have underlying issues, and so on.

You can complain to the nursery though and ask what strategies they have in place to try prevent your child from being bitten.

Staff should be closely supervising a known biter and should be aware of the child's triggers (e.g., frustration, tiredness, etc) so that they can intervene with support strategies before matters reach the biting stage.

My child was biten not long ago.
Whilst ofc no one is happy for their child to be bit as a parent all you can ask if what is being done going forward.
Thankfully I didn't have to ask I was reassured they were having one key person to follow this child round.

I'd be just as upset if my child was a biter as opposed to the one being biten.