Biting,is there a way of stopping it?

[Beauregard]

I am asking on behalf of a friend from work,her 2.4 month old recently started biting and she doesn't know how to stop him from doing it.
Obviously she moves him away and tells him it hurts to bite and it is wrong but he keeps doing it.He has bitten his brother to the point of drawing blood and today her dh took him and her other ds to visit a friend and her baby and he bit the baby's arm.She is very upset and doesn't know what to do next.
Can anyone advise please?

Most dc do it at some stage - unfortunately I have no answers other than doing what your friend has already done. It is a phase they will grow out of. My s-in-law took it to extremes one day with her dd - she bit her back. It did work

The same thing happens with my friend's 2.3 yr old to the point where, if he moves toward anyone, they back away.

Someone from out parent group recommended this book:

Biting, Pushing, Pulling Hair ? Helping Children with Aggression
by Patty Wipfler

Has your child ever lashed out and hurt someone? Has she ever been bothered by another aggressive child? If your answer is "Yes," join the crowd! Almost all of us struggle with understanding and helping our children when they hurt others, and when they are hurt by other children. It's a shock to us the first time our sweet sons and daughters suddenly bite someone, or throw something at the new baby in the family. Here are some guiding principles for understanding and relieving children's aggression, so they can relax and enjoy their friends and siblings.

To read more....
www.handinhandparenting.org/csArticles/articles/000000/000027.htm

For some reason some children get very territorial about their mums being cooing another baby, but tell her to try to include him as much as possible in the occasion but...Tell her to tell him off, ignore him and then remove and pay ALL the attention to the victim if he misbehaves.

I don't buy the it is a phase thing, although phases come and go, you don't need just wait for the pahse to pass, you can do things to make it go faster.

My Ds was bitten yesterday by our neighbours charge. Quite badly. They cant bite him back and although they sent him to his room and asked me to yell at him, it's not the first time he has bitten.

My DS bit someone once. I bit him back. He doesn't bite now. Ok, it's a tad harsh. But I am glad I don't have a biter. It may not work on my DD, who knows?

Actually, there was a child at DS nursery that kept biting DS for a year, as the child grow older the damage was worse. I spoke to the nursery, they spoke to the mother X 10 but the problem continued until one day when I arrived to collect DS just to find him very distressed and with a ring of blood in his arm. That was the end of it... I'm ashamed to say the foolowing but I told DS that next time it happened he had to bite him back, if he bite him again he was to continue biting him until the other stoped

Anyways.... another child punched and scratched DS in the fqace in the same week (unfortunately, DS looks like he is profiling himself as a bully target). Soooo next time I came to the nursery, the staff asked me to look at the bite he had got that day before... asking me to look at the face of the biter... DS had punched him and scratched his face but... the biting stop and to the surprise of everyone... they became best friends!

They loved each other and DS has been missing him miserably since he left the nursery.

Amazing what our dc can overcome.

Thanks mamama for the book info