biting

[witchwithallthetrimmings]

My dd (2) bites. She does it at nursery, she bites me and dp and her big brother. Sometimes it is protecting territory, sometimes it is jealously and sometimes it is horseplay that gets out of hand (raspberries turn into bites).

what is the best way of dealing with it?

dd2 was a biter, If she bit me or dd1 then I said 'no biting' in a loud voice and walked away from her taking dd1 with me. At playgroups or soft play I stayed right next to her ready to distract her if she went to bite someone.

You will need the support of the nursery to deal with but they do grow out of it, however, until they do they have to be supervised.

DS was a biter - took 8 months to get him to stop. At first we firmly said 'no biting' and told him off, then tried this and sitting him firmly on the floor in a naughty spot. Nothing worked till someone suggested he's doing it for attention, and in a child's eyes any attention is better than no attention. So we started ignoring it - trying not to even wince when his teeth were firmly clamped onto your arm. Took a while, but worked in the end. Can't say it was necessarily the ignoring or a cooincidence....