I cannot get him to stop biting!!!

[2girls&1boy]

Hi there,

I am sure there are quite a lot of threads on this topic but I only come on for short bursts so thought I would start my own thread.

My DS is 22months old and is a BITER :( I simply cannot get him to stop. He mainly bites one of sisters but not the other for some reason. He is not exclusive to her though and has bitten other little children at family dare care as well. It is driving me insane. I have tried the naughty corner & then getting him to say sorry. I have said to him "no biting constantly", I have even tried putting lemon or lime in his mouth each time he bites someone.

Nothing seems to be working and it is frustrating me to no end. I understand that because he cannot communicate clearly that he is resorting to this but he does it even if he sees a child that has something he is remotely interested in.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Please I am not after anything that involves smacking or biting him back though as I do not believe that either of these methods will have a positive effect on the situation.

Thanks in advance.

[FiveInTheBed]

:hugs: It can be frustrating...

DS1 didn't bite - ever.

But DD&DS2 - YEP!! (can't recall them biting other kids - mainly their siblings...and occasionally me:o)

They have grown out of it now - the only thing I found worked was constant supervision and being able to pick that 'grrrrr' [lead up to biting] - jump in , work out what was soooo frustrating that they had to bite - if they could use their words to get their feelings across they were allowed to keep playing.
If they were so wound up - I would take them away from the group play and distract them with something else - reminding them every now and then what we 'do' when we are angry - ie...use words, ask a grown up, walk away.
Also ask them "does mummy bite?...does daddy bite??" ofcourse their answer was 'NO' ..."what are teeth for ?" ...'eating our food...'

Once chilled out they could go back to playing.
If a full blown tanty erupted from being taken away, they were plonked on their bed with a book to look at and told they could come out and play when they wanted to play nice...more often than not, this resulted in a toddler going to sleep - obviously the cause for getting sooo worked up was tiredness.

:ecomcity:, sorry.

good luck :D

[Thermolicious]

:hugs: it's hard huh, DS1 is/was a biter he has gotten better over time, I just had to slow down and supervise more, involving them in more of my 'need-to-do' activities so that I could keep an eye one them :yes:

If nothing else and push came to shove I put DS1 in the highchair next to me so that I knew where he was (if I had to do something- like take a cr@p).

Have you had his hearing checked?

[~BEXTER~]

My sister use to always bite me, she was very jealous.

It happened for ages and she would really dig her teeth in.

One day my mum had just had enough and bit my sister back, Leash was that shocked she never bit me again.

To some this may seam mean but my mum had tried everything and it had been happening for ages.

The day my mum bit my sister she never bit me again.

[One of THOSE mums!]

To some this may seam mean but my mum had tried everything and it had been happening for ages.

The day my mum bit my sister she never bit me again.

lol my mum did the same thing and it worked.

we remember it only because she told us.

dont think it did us any harm. probably saved alot of pain and screaming kids!!!