Just a bit of advice, really. My 2.5 year old DS has started biting me. Not in anger, or while lashing out, but quite deliberately. Timing varies, but usually it's quite clearly for attention - he was sat on my knee eating his snack while I was attempting to have a conversation with another adult, and because my attention wasn't fully on him he bit my arm! He's generally a happy, affectionate little boy but is going through a stage of being quite argumentative, if you can be argumentative at 2 - shouting "no!" when asked to do something, shouting "that's MINE!" when asked to hand something over etc. Just normal toddler stuff, I think. I work 2 days a week and on the days when I'm at home he has my full attention for most of the day, but obviously there are times when I need to speak to another adult, make a phone call, cook dinner etc. I'm not sure how best to handle it. I've tried just telling him no firmly, and that it hurts mummy, but he then wants to say sorry and give me a cuddle - which is fine, except that it has become him biting me and then immediately saying "cuddle mummy?" - so effectively it's rewarding him! So I've started putting on the naughty step, and ignoring him for 2 minutes, which is a new thing for us, but I'm not sure if it's the right approach. I feel it makes sense that if the goal is attention, I shouldn't reward him with any attention, positive or negative - does that sound right? How would you handle it?
(Luckily, in a way, it's only me that he bites, so no complaints from nursery - not yet anyway!)