BIting

[sunnydays]

Thanks Reggio. I really like your approach. I have had a couple of biters with whom I have struggled in the past and I found time-outs to be completely ineffective. Next time biting arises in my daycare again I am going to try to approach things more in the way you have described. I think when something is not working, we have to look for new, better ways of doing things. I have only been doing daycare 2 years, so I am still learning (there is so much to learn!) and I really appreciate having this type of guidance. The discipline workshops I have been taking have helped tremendously as well and the facilitator of those would also not recommend time-outs as they are not a logical consequence and have no relation to the action the child did. I was using time-outs a lot and not finding them to work at all. I have moved to using more prevention, more positive reinforcement and being more creative in my discipline methods and things have really improved. It is an evolving process and I am actually going to cut and paste your advice into a word document for future reference as I find I need to remind myself in order to not revert to my old, ineffective ways Thanks!