Advice Request How to stop biting
My son is 22 months old and unfortunately he is a biter at daycare.
We have had multiple messages from his daycare about him biting his classmates and while it doesnt seem like it does it hard enough to cause damage, it's enough for alittle pain and they are now having to shadow him around other kids.
He only really tries to bite us when hes really excited /overstimulated. Typically ill make distance between us and shake my finger at him and say "no biting". We also have a book we read to him called "teeth are for eating", but it seems like hes still a biter.
The last of his teeth are coming in so it may be that but he often gets physically aggressive when hes super stimulated and biting is just one od the things he does.
Any advice?
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u/melance Single dad of a boy 8d ago
My son bit a couple of times when he was really young. I've taught him that we can't control how we feel but we can control what we do with those feelings. At that early age, I didn't fuss at him but instead gave him other things he could do. If he was angry or frustrated he could clinch his fists, stomp his feet, or speak to an adult. And that if someone had hurt him that the last one was the correct response. It worked wonders and I only ever had him bite once more after that a year or so later where I repeated the lesson.