I Have a Biter!! Please Help

She's going to have to get bit-either from you or some other child will do it. That's when she'll realize that it hurts and she'll stop. At my daughter's daycare (she was 1), the provider's son was a biter. She'd put him in time outs and did everything she could think of. I believe she finally bit him and then he stopped. You don't have to break the skin, but bit her firmly enough so she knows it hurts!

Good luck!

Been there! I will tell you the same thing everyone told me. Bite back. When does a child stop playing by the stove? When they get burned. My mother did it with us, I did it with my two oldest. Heck my husbands sister bit the family dog back when he bit her and he never bit again! Not everyone agrees with it but hey, if it worked for my mother it works for me. I was not abused nor do I have some horrible memory of it. Eventually someone will bite her back and she'll learn then too.

Well, I remember going through this with my now 8 year old. She would bite babies at daycare, my friends, me, her father, the babysitter, absolutely anyone who stayed around her long enough became a target for her biting! I tried everything, ignoring the behaviour, time outs, alone in her room time, everything that I tried didn't stop her. Finally she ended up biting a very good male friend of mine on the inside of his thigh, very close to a place a man does NOT want to get bit while he was sitting on a chair and didn't see her coming and he screamed and scared the heck out of me! I realised that I couldn't let this go on any longer and tried the one thing that everyone told me NOT to do and that was to bite her back! I bit her arm and left faint teeth marks (No, I didn't break the skin)she cried and looked at me like I was torturing her, I told her that biting hurts, don't do it again, and she never did! Sometimes she would forget and go to do it to another child who was trying to take a toy and I told her again, biting hurts, don't do it! She looked at her arm and stopped immediately! I am not saying that this is the right way to go about stopping a biter but it worked when nothing else would, and I think that sometimes a child has to experience the pain they are inflicting to know that it is wrong to do it. But only in severe cases, I honestly thought I was going to have to put a muzzle on her or never take her anywhere else until she was old enough to know better! Anyway, I now have a 1 year old who likes to nip once in a while but hopefully he won't escalate into a full blown biter like my daughter! Good luck to you, and if you find another way that works please, please let me know!

I had this problem with my son and a child did actually bite him back, but it didn't stop him. The only thing that worked after he bit me and drew blood was putting a drop of medium or hot salsa or hot sauce on his tongue. He didn't like the taste and since it's a food product, it didn't cause any harm. It also works if he says bad words. You don't have to use hot sauce though, you could use anything that's bitter or sour that the child doesn't like. Something like vinegar, lemon juice or the like. Then if she goes to bite again, the threat of having that taste in her mouth again should get her to stop. This is the only thing that worked for me. Hope this helps.

My sister was a biter. And the thing that finally worked was just repetition of removing her. And for her was doing it so she could see what she was missing. for instance, she was confined to the backyard. this was when Chain link was common, not the "privacy wooden" ones. so she could see that 3 house down we were all laughing and playing. It's usually in girls when their communication is quite caught up. you can also try baby signs/sign language, starting with the basics.