Help! My almost two year old won't stop biting her one year old brother. It's getting ridiculous. The other day he had four bites. The week before two huge bruises on his arm from bites. She bites him at least once a day. It's a jealousy thing it seems but she has also bitten her 3 year old cousin, she pulls her cousin's hair, and she has pushed her brother over numerous, numerous times. She does it quickly and I don't have a chance to intervene; she's also intelligent enough to wait until I'm not paying full attention, cooking dinner, getting ready to go out etc. Every time I turn my back she's bullying him. I'm literally resorting to separating them when I need to be doing something.
She's so flipping aggressive at the moment, I'm finding it very hard to like her! She's taken to hitting to - pretty much anyone. Sometimes it's just over-excitement but when I catch her doing it to DS she has a really mean look on her face. She is very clingy lately too and gets whiny and demanding if I talk to anyone else; today for example I walked part way to playgroup with another mum and chatted to her and she was really whiny and trying to get my attention with 'mummmmy, mummy, mummy, mummy!'.
Any advice? Time out, firm no's, praise for being kind, showing her how to be gentle etc just don't work. Today I've pushed her own arm against her teeth in the hope that this demonstrates the pain she is causing. I just don't know what will stop her. She's in general being wilfully naughty lately anyway, continually doing things she knows aren't ok. She's two next month so I guess we're hitting 'that phase'.....