dinosaurs bite and so do other animals - but for food not for being nasty

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ok whwen how do you start telling your little ones that yes dinos etc bite and lions do too

little one went through spate of biting and now seems okish....still does it but bit less

however i know all boys become you know roar here comes lion etc

so previously his dinos etc were all nice animals but when and how should i introduce the fact that yes eg lions/dinos are scary and bite to eat

transition baffling me BIG time and all because he is asking me about it and because grnadma did a story about a dino chasing an animal over xmas

2 1/2 now so i guess he will see more and more (natural) violence in the months to come

any advice aappreicated

Your thread title explains it well enough. Also, make a clear distinction between humans and animals too.

have to say though, I really can't see it being an issue tbh.

I have never been worried about it but i am a scientist. so it is just nature. ds is very interested in inforamtion so we used to watch things like big cat diaries and other stuff like that. I also brought in the idea about ham comes from pigs, beef from cows, chicken from hens etc all at the same time. But started with the we get eggs from hens and milk from cows bit. Because it is not seen as unusual ds just takes it to be how it is. SO when the cat caught her own dinner and left the remains on the patio ds simply shouted in "cat wont need any tea she has had a rat"

I dealt with it in this way as it concerned me
a) the number of kids who didnt know where food came from (we also got him growing runner beans at this age)
b) the number of kids who didnt understand that it was a matter of survival for animals to eat other animals.

I thought about cultures where it wasnt a big deal and realised that they were exposed to the ideas at a young age of this was how it was, not anything terrible or strange.

Ds did have an extra bit of biting when we started this but we made the point that some animals only ate vegatables and some ate meat. But even if he was pretending to be an animal it was not acceptible to bite and normal discipline continues.

thanks for tips - just trying to find balance

bad/good no biting behaviour vs growing up to be a little boy who likes roaring dinos lions etc