Help help help please

[Rudgey]

My 18 month old has been bitten a few times from my mindee 16 months. The bites are very deep and the mindee bites and hangs on till someone pulls him away. How do I save my son from this and prevent other children in my care from being hurt. On some occasions you can see it is out of frustration and others for no reason at all. Please tell me what I can do. Thanks in advance.

this is as a parent not a childminder - in my view the only thing you can do with biting - is watch the biter very closely and stop them before they start, so really try not to leave them out of eye sight with other children - and also have a consquence if it happens - for that age - I would put them on their bum and say no very sternly - bit young for the naughtly step etc - and give loads of attention tothe bitten child -
its normally a phase that wears off -
what do the parents say - as its helpful for them to do the same things

With such a little child then the biting won't be malicious- but will still hurt! :( Could it be that he/she is teething?

With biters I'd keep between the biter and bitee and if I had to leave the room I'd take the biter with me, or put them somewhere safe if that wasn't appropriate (playpen etc). If they did manage to bite I'd say a firm 'no' and remind them to be gentle - taking their hand and gentling stroking it on the hurt child to reinforce the point.