what to do about biting

I run a daycare and have been going threw this issue with one of my kids. I talked to the parents and we agreed to tell the child if he is going to bite someone, he has to bite himself first. Well, he did bite someone, so I told him if he wanted to bite something to bite his own arm and he right there brought his hand to his mouth and bit it~ hard!! He started to cry (poor thing) and once I got him calmed down, we talked about how much it hurt and how he was hurting his friends by biting them. It worked.

My son is having his new teeth and it's 8 now. He always biting me and everytime he did it i slap his mouth and said "no thats bad". I know he nevr yet understand me but when he started to bit me i raise my hand and say no so he stop. You must talk to your son not to do it. You must say it frimly so he can follow you.

I think it's only considered child abuse to a certain extent. My kids both went through a phase like that, usually when they were getting new teeth. They do it because it feels good and they don't understand that it causes pain to others, you have to show them that. I never crossed the line when teaching my children that biting hurts, never enough to even leave a mark, it doesn't take much when they're that young. I just bit them back lightly on the fingers or somewhere, using enough pressure to cause discomfort, and when they would say that it hurts, I would explain to them that it hurts other people when they do it to them, too. Usually it didn't take long for them to get the point.