Kids Biting

The main reason for this is they are just 11 months apart, and hte older child have got the feeling that he is being left out and his younger brother is getting all the attention. I will blame the grandparents and the parents only. When there are so many people around, atleast one of them could have taken care of the older one. The mother cannot be caring both the kids all the at the same time. It is really bad that the older kid is biting. But your friend should understand one thing that both the kids are small and especially the older the two year old. It is better to treat him the big brother of the small kid and ask him to help mom, grandparents in taking care of the younger one. Definitely the older one will be very much happy and be obliged to do that. Slowly create an impression on the older kid's mind that he have the responsibility to take care of the younger one like his mom and dad. Make him the important person. Ask him the opinion when you are to wear a dress to him. Ask the older one's choice as to which one will suit best for his kid brother. This way he will not feel left out and he will definitely come out of that biting habit.

of course they are still children, all you have to do, is to give them discipline to cut off their bad habits.

I have been a member of a birth-3 program and they say that being consistant with disclipine is the key to success with kids. The older child has to learn that there are consequences to biting and the parents HAVE to follow through EVERY time. Take a chair, foot stool or a piece of rug and make it the "nauty" spot and EVERY time the 2yr old bites he is put on the nauty spot and does not get off till he says sorry and is calm. The key to to be consistant and enforce the punnishment every time.

What you could do and this has worked when I worked at a day care center. The parents came and told us this was a good idea. It is a simple idea. All you do is hand the child a apple and tell him that when he feels like biting his brother to take a bite out of the apple. It has worked with some of my parents and some not when I was working at the day care. So that could be a possibility.

I think biting is just a form of expressing their dislike or anger or feelings, they often cannot express themselves with words and so they use their teeth, all mine went through a biting stage when they hit 2, as did my friends children. My friend used to bite hers back when they did it not really hard but hard enough just to show them that it hurt and it was not right to bite and that worked for her. I think he has to be made to realise that it hurts somehow, he cant feel it so he doesnt know, not that I am saying he should be bitten back but just somehow show him that his teeth cause pain. I just used to smack or give them a good telling off and that worked for mine, but every child is different.

I hate kids that bite with a passion! My daughter luckily never went through this stage. She used to go to my sisters a lot and there was a kid that hung out there a lot thats a little younger then her she was 3 and he was like 2. He would bite her a lot and it made me soooo mad! One day my sister decided she was going to bite him back. No i know it wasnt the right thing to do but it taught him a lesson and he never bit my daughter again.

I know alot of people will not agree with me on this but I went through it so I know. My son was biting kids all the time because he was frustrated that they took a toy or something away from him and one day he bit my friends littel girl to the point that she was bleeding at that point it had been about 3 months and I couldn't figure out a way to get him to stop so I bit him back. He NEVER did it again. I hated doing it because I always try to find alternative ways to discipline my kids but nothing else was working. He finally realized that it hurts when he does that. A few months after he quit there was a little boy that started biting him it was like 5-10 per day that they were together and the kids mother would never do anything about it. Well my son wouldn't even make a sound when it happened and NEVER bit the kid back. The only reason I found out it was happening was because I would take my son home and he had 5-10 bites on his back and arms. If it is not taken care of it will only get worse. There are other methods that work for other people but they didn't work for me. You can try scaring the child out of it by using a loud firm voice when he's biting you can try rinsing his mouth with soap or pepper umm I would suggest looking this up online more thoroughly to get more Ideas.

im not one that condones going around and biting kids either, i too had went thru this with my son when he was around 3. i even talked to his doctor and one of the best piece of advice he gave me (which no one may see proper) but was to bite him back. not to hard but hard enuff to show that it doesnt feel good. a couple of times of that he quit. thats just my situation but if itll work for your friend id say try it.