When your 1 year old BITES you how do you respond?

[Poppychick]

DS is 15mths old. He's had a few goes at biting me but I thought he was just testing the boundaries maybe or that it was beacuse he was teething.

Today in ASDA he didn't want to hold me hand so pulled it up to his mouth and bit me.

My instinct was to smack him but I didn't. No idea how to deal with this but feel I want to address it now rather than wait until he starts doing it to other people. DP says we should put him in his room for 2 minutes when he does it.

What would you do? He's not very vocal and wouldn't understand me explaining much about it. Please suggest ...

I would say a very strong no and then withdraw from any attention to the child. Depending where you are walk away or turn your back so that they get the point that bad behaviour will not be rewarded with attention.

Just a very firm no! He is too young to understand anything else (IMO)

He would understand your reaction and tone of voice. I would stop dead, look at him with a stern face and say - that was not nice and we don't do that.
Putting him his room for 2mins wouldn't do any good. Especially if you are waiting to get home to do that. He would respond better to an instant reaction.

As above. I used to shout and say 'that hurts' and give a lecture, but the most effective was 'NO', followed by ignoring completely. He has totally stopped doing it now.

He laughs when I do that. I know it needs to be instant so bedroom wouldn't have worked today.

Why does he laugh? Tell me he's not the only toddler like this?

I can do stern!

Did any of your children actually do this?

My DD never did I'm really worried.

I picked him up but not in a cuddly way so he was facing out away from me and didn't talk to him. I made a big fuss of DD to try and accentuate what I was doing.

My DS in 15 months old and he bites me from time to time too. I just say firmly "No. Don't bite Mummy" He understands "no" and doesn't like it. I shouldn't be worried....

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