Anyone have some advice for 2 year-olds who bite?
He's bitten his brother a few times before, but we were at a friends house and he full on bit a little boys face (2.5 year old), causing bleeding. I wasn't right there so I don't know exactly what happened.
I made him watch the little boy he bit get cleaned up and talk about how bad it was, made him say sorry and give him a hug, but I am at a loss for how to stop this behavior (this by far was the worst).
So--what do you do when your 2 year old bites? (besides just tell them no---I need something to STOP the behavior)
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Vampire Children
Posted by Ivy & Mae at 10:04 AM
Labels: Behavior Management
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I have the same problem with a 13month old who thinks it's funny to bite and pinch. I need help too!!!!
When my son, Jachin, was 8 months until about 2 he would bite either me or his Dad. We never knew if he was going to give us a hug or bite us. I would pat his mouth and say, "It's not nice to bite." Sometimes it would help and sometimes it wouldn't. An older lady in my ward told me to bite him back, but I could never do that!
We got a book called "No Biting" which talks about behaviors, the first on happens to be biting. The biting page says, "No biting your friends. What can you bite?" (Then you flip the page) "Apples" We were then able to talk more about what we should bite and what we shouldn't bite. We made it a little silly game talking about things like biting cars, cookies, spiders, etc. He didn't bite as often and stopped all together around 2.
Our second Hiram started biting as soon as he got teeth, around 10 months. When he was a year, we started reading that book to him and when he started talking at 18 months we were able to play the game with him as well, and he stopped biting sooner.
Once again, we didn't have any problems with our children biting others, just family members. Good luck!
Sometimes biters respond to the stimulus of biting, so it's good to give them something great to bite. You keep it with you in your bag, and when he bites, you immediately make him say sorry followed by encouraging him to bite the designated object. I know it sounds horrible, but sometimes doggie-chew toys are great because they have a really tough, yet pliable resistance that children like. Based on how hard my kids have bitten me, I don't think that the chew rings they sell for kids cut it.
There are special tools we use in speech therapy with kids who need that stimulus called chewy tubes, you could find them online if you really want them.
There is of course, the option to find another biter and have them play together until they bite each other. . .then you don't have to do the biting!
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