My 2yr8mth old has developed a nasty biting habit, mainly other children at nursery but he does occasionally bite me as well. It’s been going on for a few months now and both nursery and I have run out of ideas about how to stop it.
He doesn’t respond to discipline, we’ve tried the thinking mat, ignoring the bad behaviour, sticker charts/rewards for good behaviour etc. He just laughs when we explain that biting hurts and it’s not nice to hurt people.
He does have a speech delay and is awaiting his SALT appointment but his speech has improved recently. I would still say he is fairly unintelligible to most people though.
He is a very active, boisterous boy. Always has been! And is quite difficult to control generally. His aggressive behaviour (including hitting) began after his sister was born 6 months ago but we seem to have largely resolved this at home and he now very rarely targets the baby, only really when he’s been told “no” to something and is having a strop.
Nursery are really struggling with him and I am worried that they are going to want me to take him out of the setting soon. There seems to be no reason for the biting, he just turns around and chomps whoever is nearest. Sometimes he’ll bite several children in quick succession.
Any pearls of wisdom?!