HI, im new here and just had a question. My daughter has 4 teeth and she is 10 months old. She will not stop biting us. I know that she is still teething ( she's got 2 coming in at once) but she will act like she is going to give me kisses and takes a big hunk out of my face or lips. My husband said she was doing it to get a reaction so i tried not respondind but she does it anyway. She is an only child and has one little baby friend that i do play dates with and he doesn't have teeth so i don't know where she is getting this from. I popped her on the mouth she laughed at me. When i point my finger and say no no she tries to bite my finger! What do i do?
My 10 month old is doing this too. I grab his hand, look him directly in the eye, and say no. At first, he would laugh and try again. I've started holding his arm and looking him sternly in the eye after saying no until he drops that smile. He's getting it, but it has been a process. I also have to do this with hair pulling. He's also at home with me and an only child, so he hasn't learned it from anyone.
Hope that helps!
Ok, this might come across really mean for me to recommend but when my daughter was about 2 or 3 she started to bite me as well and I didn't know either how to get her to stop. I talked to my Mom about it and she told me to bite her back(not really hard, but hard enough to get her attention) the reason is, is that she has no clue how this feels when shes biting you. If she feels a little of what it feels like, she wont want it to happen to her again! Its the same with hair pulling, she pulls your hair and you may want to pull her hair to show her how this feels. I know it sounds a little childish and like I said my daughter was 2 or 3 (a little older than yours) but it only took me once to do this and she never did it again! Remeber dont bite to hard, you dont want to hurt her just enough to get her attention, to let her know how this feels!
Mine did that at about 10 months too. I think it is experimenting with teeth! It stopped, but now he pulls hair!
R.
Her teeth are her new toys! She is just trying them out. All three of my boys were biters at that age. I found that the bigger of a deal I made out of it, the more they did it. At that age, reprimanding them didn't do much good. They didn't understand what I was trying to tell them. When they would bite, I would hold their hands, look them in the eye, and say in a stern (but not too loud) voice, "No biting. Biting is not nice." Then I would redirect their attention to something else. Good Luck!
