Very bitey/ nippy and hyper puppy

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I am a first time dog owner so I'm not sure what's normal. I have a 13 week old cockapoo.

Several people have commented on how very hyper my puppy is, including the trainer and for example two people who own dogs I know have said they have never seen a puppy/ dog so much like this and so nippy/ bitey.

He snaps at us and others a lot. He will try and bite at me if he doesn't like something I'm doing e.g. putting him in his car carrier soft crate. Sometimes he growls and hisses when this sort of thing is going on. It feels more than playful nipping.

I am firm with him and don't indulge him, I have tried all the usual stuff so far e.g. yelping, withdrawing attention but maybe it is early days (we have had him 5 weeks). I feel I can't have him around children at the moment. At the weekend he nipped at a little girl on her shoulder when she was lying down (maybe I should have been keeping a closer eye to be fair) and at school pick up he just goes crazy jumping up trying to nip any child who is near.

Is this normal? Please don't flame me if it is and I'm clueless! The irony is he looks ever so cute...

daisy ah sorry I misunderstood. A "correction" tends to mean a physical correction, usual a tug on a choke collar or grabbing the pup by the scruff, so I assumed that's what you meant when you said you use a "strong correction". Clearly you mean a verbal command which means stop this, people generally use "uh ah" or "leave it" but most words will do. This can also work, but the OP would need to teach the command to the puppy first, she would need to teach it in another environment with some kind of reward to reinforce the opposite of the behaviour.