watch out i have teeh an i know how to use them!!!!!!
By kali06
@kali06 (24)
United States
September 25, 2009 10:17am CST
My youngest set of twins have found out that they can bit you and it hurts. But it doesnt hurt them.lol. I tell them not to bite but they do it when they are playing and they do it when they are mad.I take ther toys when they still bite but that doesnt work either. What do I do? What has worked for you?
2 responses
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
25 Sep 09
I guess it depends on their age and what level of discipline you are comfortable with. With my kids I usually just gave them a tap on the mouth when they did it and it only took one or two times and they stopped the biting. And I mean a tap, not a hard hit. Just enough of a little slap so that it stings and gets their attention. I've also bitten a kid back lol. That sounds bad but he never bit again. I didn't bite hard enough to really hurt him, just enough that he felt it and knew that it hurt. It seems harsh I guess to some people, but I took my kids to work with me at the daycare and I didn't need them going around biting all the other kids.
@tonika1980 (155)
• United States
25 Sep 09
My mom said that when my brother and sisters were babies, and my brother would bite my sister, she would have her bite him back. It didn't take very long for him to get the picture that him hurting her was going ot result in him getting hurt in return. Biting is definatley something that kids have to know not to do. That's for sure. My youngest tried it for a while, but she soon learned that it would get her into trouble. Sitting in time out to her is pretty much all it takes for her to get the point. You would think she was getting severely punished by her reaction at being told to sit on the couch until I say she can get up...and that only lasts for a few minutes.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
25 Sep 09
My son is finally coming out of his biting stage. He's almost three years old and is now able to communicate with a lot less difficulty than he had when he was going through his biting stage. I believe that the reason that young children go through these aggressive stages is because they have a level of frustration at not being able to communicate very well. With my son when he would bite, I would look him in the face and firmly tell him no. Usually that was enough to make him start crying and he wouldn't bite for a while (noramlly a week or more) after that.
