Dealing with a biter

BrittRMere

So, I just had my first legitimate Owen bite. He's got 7 teeth now (4 top, 3 bottom) and it effing hurt! 

How do you deter biting when your child doesn't understand 'no' yet?   

MarSamWhitney

Honestly, I think they understand more than we give them credit for. Where did he bite you, or is it during BF'ing? I cant help there, but I imagine its painful! Ive heard some people say they shriek loudly, in order to startle the baby a little bit. I have no clue if that is effective or not.

As far as saying no, we have been saying that to W over the past few weeks and I think she is starting to sort of get it. Probably not 100 %, but maybe a little.  She has been scooting over to the tv cabinet and flipping open the dvd player.  I have said "W, NO!", In a semi stern voice. She will stop short and look at me.  Right away, she generally tries to do it again, and I tell her No again. She stops, looks at me, and then will turn her attention to something else.

I think she can tell by a little stronger tone from me.  Or maybe I am just reading into it too much ;-)

BrittRMere

MarSamWhitney:

Honestly, I think they understand more than we give them credit for. Where did he bite you, or is it during BF'ing? I cant help there, but I imagine its painful! Ive heard some people say they shriek loudly, in order to startle the baby a little bit. I have no clue if that is effective or not.

As far as saying no, we have been saying that to W over the past few weeks and I think she is starting to sort of get it. Probably not 100 %, but maybe a little.  She has been scooting over to the tv cabinet and flipping open the dvd player.  I have said "W, NO!", In a semi stern voice. She will stop short and look at me.  Right away, she generally tries to do it again, and I tell her No again. She stops, looks at me, and then will turn her attention to something else.

I think she can tell by a little stronger tone from me.  Or maybe I am just reading into it too much ;-)

He just bit me on the thumb (thank God haha). I guess we will just have to start being really consistent with 'no' and just deal with the biting until he finally gets it

MarSamWhitney

BrittRMere:

MarSamWhitney:

Honestly, I think they understand more than we give them credit for. Where did he bite you, or is it during BF'ing? I cant help there, but I imagine its painful! Ive heard some people say they shriek loudly, in order to startle the baby a little bit. I have no clue if that is effective or not.

As far as saying no, we have been saying that to W over the past few weeks and I think she is starting to sort of get it. Probably not 100 %, but maybe a little.  She has been scooting over to the tv cabinet and flipping open the dvd player.  I have said "W, NO!", In a semi stern voice. She will stop short and look at me.  Right away, she generally tries to do it again, and I tell her No again. She stops, looks at me, and then will turn her attention to something else.

I think she can tell by a little stronger tone from me.  Or maybe I am just reading into it too much ;-)

He just bit me on the thumb (thank God haha). I guess we will just have to start being really consistent with 'no' and just deal with the biting until he finally gets it

Oh good, that sounds a lot less painful. Hopefully they eventually get the concept of NO. She literally looks at me like "WTF did you just say to me?"  lol

teshy1

I don't really have any advice on this, but I'm curious to know what others' suggestions are.  DD has turned into a total piranha in the past few weeks, with 4 new teeth coming in and her 2 bottom teeth are sharp as nails.  So far, all I've done is say "no" sternly, except when she bit me while nursing.  I shrieked, and she immediately looked up at me, startled.  I don't think she's done it since.  The shrieking was more of an instant reaction on my part anyway.  Baby teeth + nipple = serious pain!

Megs12411

mbenit4:

Bite him back, yell, or something to let him know it hurts.

He is old enough to understand no and a lot more. If you can train a puppy to sit, etc at 6 months then . . .

No works for me right now with DS. I started when he started crawling. I can't remember how long it has been now. I try not to overuse it and pick my battles.

Christ on a cracker? I don't even know where to start........

 1) a human child is not a puppy.

 2) biting your child back is about as useful as nailing jello to a tree...nto to mention painful. A 6 month old baby lacks the ability to understand empathy. He can't grasp the conection between what he does and what's done TO him. Children also learn from example....by biting him by you are teaching him to...wait for it...BITE.

 FFS. Don't bite your kid.

/end rant

rimjob

Megs12411:

mbenit4:

Bite him back, yell, or something to let him know it hurts.

He is old enough to understand no and a lot more. If you can train a puppy to sit, etc at 6 months then . . .

No works for me right now with DS. I started when he started crawling. I can't remember how long it has been now. I try not to overuse it and pick my battles.

Christ on a cracker? I don't even know where to start........

 1) a human child is not a puppy.

 2) biting your child back is about as useful as nailing jello to a tree...nto to mention painful. A 6 month old baby lacks the ability to understand empathy. He can't grasp the conection between what he does and what's done TO him. Children also learn from example....by biting him by you are teaching him to...wait for it...BITE.

 FFS. Don't bite your kid.

/end rant

ILY and I've missed you.

BrittRMere

Megs12411:

mbenit4:

Bite him back, yell, or something to let him know it hurts.

He is old enough to understand no and a lot more. If you can train a puppy to sit, etc at 6 months then . . .

No works for me right now with DS. I started when he started crawling. I can't remember how long it has been now. I try not to overuse it and pick my battles.

Christ on a cracker? I don't even know where to start........

 1) a human child is not a puppy.

 2) biting your child back is about as useful as nailing jello to a tree...nto to mention painful. A 6 month old baby lacks the ability to understand empathy. He can't grasp the conection between what he does and what's done TO him. Children also learn from example....by biting him by you are teaching him to...wait for it...BITE.

 FFS. Don't bite your kid.

/end rant

Um, yeah. I'm definitely not going to be biting him back.