Hi
I'm wondering if anyone has any advice.
My 10 month old is a biter it started off when he was teething but now he does it to see your reaction or when his frustrated. When he does this we put our hands near his mouth and get him off and say no then remove him from the situation. Sometimes he cries and we will bring him back and hug him.
Over the last couple of weeks though he has started scratching and hitting. He does this when I have had to take unsuitable object away from him that he wants. I try and replace it with something else to distract him but he still gets really mad. When I have described it to people they have said yeah all babies get upset when you take things away etc but I have had three people see his reaction in the last couple of days and they all gasped and couldn't believe it.
For example today I took away a tube of sun cream from him and tried to replace it with a toy brick. He did his little mad babbling at me and then crawled back over to me after I had moved away and lashed out and scratched my hand. He then leaned into my leg to try and bite me. Later on my friend took a piece of paper from him that he was trying to eat and he got mad but crawled over to me and hit me even though I wasn't the one that took it off him
I understand babies get frustrated and don't know how to express it but I'm worried about the circumstances he does this in. Does anyone have any advice about how to stop it?