My 18 month old daughter is a prolific biter, to the extent I fear she may be kicked out of nursery.
To set the scene, she is very confident and subsequently very handsy/mouthy with other children. She is not biting from frustration or anger, it seems to be either for attention or affection gone wrong. She bites 1-4 children every day at nursery, variety of places, variety of severity. This has been going on for 6+ months. It doesn’t seem to be connected to sleepiness/hunger
We have tried a lot of solutions to try and teach her that biting isn’t nice. She has a chewy toy which she wears as a necklace, we read the ‘teeth aren’t for biting book’ every day, when she does bite we (and her carers at nursery) remove her from the situation and repeat that biting hurts. She rarely bites adults but when she does, we react with pain and ask her to apologise/kiss it better.
Nursery are at a loss as to what to do. I know it’s something she’s going to grow out of , but that doesn’t help me now 6 months after it first started, with a fear of her causing genuine harm/getting kicked out of nursery! At 18 months I do find her comprehension is quite good but I don’t truly know how to ‘teach’ it out of her.
tips, tricks, support really really welcomed!