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4 year old constantly biting

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Cherryblossoms85 · 19/07/2022 19:12

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?? I have a DD4 who has two older brothers, 6 and 8. The boys play quite nicely together, but DF often seems to feel left out because she isn't at school, can't play the same games as them, etc. Her "solution" to feeling left out (or seemingly any conflict where she doesn't get her way) is to go and bite her older brother (the 6 year old) on the arm, very hard. On a few occasions she has also scratched him so hard he has bleeding wounds. We've been pretty consistent in sending her to her room to calm down, not making a big drama out if it, not giving attention for bad behaviour etc. All the things I've read about. She occasionally also scratches my DH in the face, I've never actually seen what leads up to these incidents though. Since my DH gave up work to look after the kids, this behaviour has really ramped up. What's going on?? She's way too old for this.

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withsexypantsandasausagedog · 24/07/2022 09:32

Have you tried acknowledging her feelings - ie frustration at not being able to join in, and being very firm that feeling frustrated is ok but biting is NOT! And suggestions of what she could do or say when feeling frustrated, and acting out these so she is confident in doing them next time she feels like biting someone.

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