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BuckeyeWife07
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Biting Remedies?
BuckeyeWife07
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My daughter has gone through biting waves at daycare since she was about one year old, now she's nearly 2 1/2 and she still has her bouts. She gets yelled at and put in timeout (as much as daycare can do) and I've even tried going to the daycare to spank her and yell at her, but nothing is stopping it. She's only ever bitten around me when her cousin (who is her age) does something that really angers her (like sits on her or closes the baby gate on her). Every once in awhile DH and I will see her stop herself when we make her really angry, but she doesn't ever bite us. I'm sort of at my whit's end on what to do to make her stop. We talk about it, I've yelled at her, daycare has talked to her, etc. She is old enough now that she knows she's not supposed to and they say she knows immediately that she screwed up... but I just got another call that she bit. Does anyone have any tips for stopping this behavior? I don't know what else to do!
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Re: Biting Remedies?
How are her verbal skills? I have read that biting can sometimes be a result of not being able to express themselves.
There is a cute, simple book called, "When You're Mad and You Know It" and it gives kids ideas on how to express their anger in appropriate ways. So one of the ideas is, "If you're mad and you know it stomp your foot". Maybe after reading the book it is something you can rehearse with her. Like have her stuffed animals act out something that is upsetting to her and then they can stomp their foot and say, "I'm Mad!" Keep practicing with her like that?
We had a situation where if a child close to DD got hurt and was crying she would run up and start hitting them. I think it upset/scared her to see them crying and for some reason she would start hitting them to make them stop? What I started doing with her was using her Little People to act out situations where one kid would get hurt and start crying. Then we would ask the child, "Are you OK? Do you need a hug?" We just kept acting that script out over and over until she had it memorized. Then at times when I would see her running to hit her cousin or friend if he/she was crying, I would grab her and respond with, "What do we say?" And she would repeat the questions we had practiced. It really did seem to help to give her an appropriate response to a situation that was upsetting to her.
Good luck!