My little boy is biting - beside myself

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Help!! Ideas welcome. My little boy started nursery at 18 months old and his now just over 2. When he started he was bitten quite a few times over a few months. His now started to bite at nursery when his frustrated or when he is told no. He has bitten a couple of times at home but it's not as constant like at nursery. I'm so stressed out with it I feel like my little boy is turning horrible and that I don't know what to do to stop it. I actually dread picking him up invade his bitten that day and hurt another child. Has anyone got any advice on how to deal with it? He knows it's not nice as he tells me but it seems to be the frustration of not being able to say what's wrong. I'm teaching him to say stop or no thank you when he gets frustrated but it's getting him to remember that when his in the heat of the moment! Thank you a worried mummy

All I can say is... it will get better! I had this with my DS (most parents probably!) and I found it was just a phase he was going through. We tried everything... telling him off, putting him on the naughty step, explaining it calmly to him but nothing worked, then we decided to ignore it completely (even if it really hurt when he bit us) and oddly it worked after a couple of weeks because he wasn’t getting the attention he wanted. Sorry I can’t be of any more help!

I've had a biter- and a bitee. All you can do really until this phase passes is damage limitation: keep an eye on him when you are there and apologise profusely when it does happen. It will pass.