Biting

[daycaremom9]

I have a 21 month old dcg that is easy going most of the time, but has a history of pinching, hitting and head butting when she doesn't get what she wants. My 23 month old daughter gets the brunt of it since they are almost the same age and all the other kids are much older. But this morning for the first time the dcg bit my daughter on the arm, so hard that it almost broke the skin.


so any advice, other than a firm "no biting" and giving the other child lots of cuddles?

This dcg will usually not have any real reaction when I scold her (firm voice, not yelling). When I tell her no hitting, no biting she usually just smiles at me and says "Hi!" in an innocent voice.

I believe I've mentioned this in a previous post. I have a boy who started biting about a year ago. I found that shadowing worked wonders since he was biting when I was busy with something or someone else. Also I started to realize that there was usually something that precipitated this. I think he felt like he was being bossed around by the older girls.

The mom suggested that I give him hot sauce or bite him back. After my shock subsided, I explained to her that I couldn't do that!lol