How do I keep my son from biting everyone?
My son did the same thing...uugghh..I read and read and learned to ignore it. He wants a response out of you and when he does not get it, he will move on to another annoying habit.haha. Hope this helps!
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I hope you do find a solution that can help you and your baby. I have 3 children and none of them ever had a biting problem. I will say that for me I would be very upset if another child did bite my child, because I teach mine not to hit or bite. You will get alot of mom's saying that their child may have done the same thing and see how they handled it. my two youngest are 3 and 23 months, none of them are in day care for the simple fact of other children hitting and biting and I dont want mine to be exposed to that..I know when they start school there is a good chance that they may experience that, but until then they stay at home..
I'm glad that you are asking for suggestions because of your fears which are valid, hopofully you can get some good suggestions that will help you and your baby..
Good Luck
I understand your problem, my nephew used to do it and his mom would bite him back when he would bite not to hard but enough to get the point across and tell him that if he didn't want bit then he needed to stop biting. I know it sounds harsh, but ti did work cause he only did it a few times after that. Good Luck
My son is almost two years old and has been having the same problem since he was one. He actually doesn't bite as much as he once did. He has gotten alot better. He will only do this on a very rare occassion. What I did was just let him know that biting was an unacceptable behavior. When he would bite, I would sternly tell him NO and shake my head. The expression on my face let him know that I was unhappy with him, and when he wanted me to hold him (because the look hurts his feelings) I would not. I would sit him on the chair beside me. If you continue to not reward him or get excited when he exhibits this behavior it will end or at least be shown very rarely like in my son's case. It will take patience, because it doesn't just happen overnight. But it will happen.
This was one of my most frustrating issues with mothering my now 2 1/2-year-old daughter. Unfortunately, we just had to wait it out. She was biting so much at daycare that we were afraid she'd get kicked out! The only thing that seemed to work was asking her to wear a "biting bracelet." When she was obviously frustrated and tended to bite people, her teachers (and parents) encouraged her to bite the bracelet. Good luck!
My one year old started biting also and I was told to Bite him back well one day he bit my sister 3 times and she wouldn't bite him back so I bit him and since that day he has not biten anyone. It has been about 3 weeks now. Good Luck.
I have twin girls that are 7 years old now and they started biting each other at an early age like that too. We broke them of it by telling them it hurt and asking them if they would like for us to bite them back. I know it sounds a bit cruel but it worked after a short time. They did not want Mommy or Daddy to bite them. We wasn't going to but they thought we were and they quit.
I hope this will help you.
I had the same problem with my son who is now almost 18 months. One day out of no where he up and bit me on the collar bone. I took my first two fingers and popped him in the mouth (not hard enough to hurt him, just enough to get his attention) and said in a low, loud voice "No biting. We do not bite". He was so surprised, he never bit me again.
The good news is your not alone. Tons of children go through a biting phase, some more so than others. As wih everything else, he will ultimatly outgrow it.
Well I always bit mine back, and some people don't agree with that however it worked for me! I have 3 boys that went throught the very same thing but when we would bite them back they stopped. Good Luck!
Have you tried putting him in time out when he bites?
How about giving him a teething toy and encouraging him to bite on it when he's excited or angry?
If all else fails, you can do what my mom did with my sister, which was to bite back. Not hard enough to break the skin, and not in a state of pique, but calmly and just hard enough to let her know that it hurts people when you bite them.
