Every had a child biter?

My second oldest son used to bite until I told him if he bit me I would bite him back. He did not bite after that.,

Mine used to bite me in the arm a few times but I chose not to make anything of it as he was out for attention to his tantrums and that way he grew out of it. It can be distressing for some.

Luckily I do not have biters, but my kids had "friends" who bit them! Believe it or not, last year my daughter had issues with her troublesome friend . . . the friend actually bit my daughter . . . and we are talking 11 year olds!!

I was bitten by my childhood friend when I was 10 years old. My mom discovered the mark while I was sleeping. She was so upset because she could she the teeth marks lol.

Yes my nephew was a biter when he was younger

This is the first I've heard of it. But I also don't have kids.

I have two kids. My daughter is over three years old now, she also bite me last year. The reason is the teeth growing.

I had a biter in the playgroup I ran when my son was young. Unfortunately I have forgotten what we did. I think we probably tried to look at the context and distract before the biting occurred. Then removed the child to a safe, quiet space if it happened. We probably also explained the other child was hurt and got the biter to say "sorry." One day, when my son was 16 he introduced me to a friend. He said "This is T the Playgroup biter!" The lad did not still bite people much to my relief!

My two boys never did that when they were real young. Thank goodness!

My son wasn't a biter

My niece recently when through a biting phase, but seems to be over it now!

My oldest son was a biter until he got bit himself. He never did it again. Nothing I did made any difference to make him stop. It took another biter to do the trick.

No one ever bit me when I was younger, that I remember. But there was one little girl who would sometimes see a white hair growing among my dark hair, and she would always yank it out! ouch!

I heard that as a child I bit... but... no kids in my life so I can't reply. I think it's right, kids can bite it's a normal little kid thing....

My sons were not biters but my granddaughter was. She is 3 now but when she was 2 she would get mad and bite her mom. She never bit me for some reason--she put her mouth on my arm once and I told her if she bit me she would be very sorry. She grew out of it when she learned to talk more and could express her frustrations better. While she was biting we would explain that it hurt and every time she hurt herself somehow we would tell her that biting hurt even worse. She got the idea. Some people bite them back but I never believed in doing that.

No, we were lucky as our 2 sons never bited anyone.

No, my kids never bit anyone and I don't think they were ever bitten either, although I've heard about it from time to time. Some parents will gently bite the child especially if/when the child bites the parent. Since it's right after the initial bite the child seems to realize what's happening and supposedly it helps to inhibit the biter from continuing to bite others. The problem arises when it's at a daycare or other place and the parent isn't readily available. My daughter just got a job in a day care this past January and there's one child that is biting one other child. They have certain things they can do for discipline and none of it's working to dissuade the biter child from biting. The parent's of the one being bitten have threatened to remove their child from the daycare. We think the daycare should ask the parent's of the child doing the biting to find a different daycare. Haven't a clue what will be done about that as my daughter is quitting that job for other reasons and moving back home.

My children never bit but I did know some that did.

I think almost every child bites during the period where they first grew their teeth, probably to test it out. The kids in my family eventually never bite after they get older.

when the child first child is always biting his hand (thumb in general) it usually happens, we have to anticipate by providing a dot that has been largely abandoned today. dot look good and hygienic.