Bad day

[Lee-Bee]

I remember biting a friend in high school. A bunch of us were hanging out, he thought it would be funny to sit on me and reach back and tickle me. I don't like to be tickled, I voiced this, told him to stop, but had no way to stop him as he was on top of me. I bit him in the back. Boy did he go flying across the room...never tried to sit on me or tickle me again...nor did anyone else!

Sometimes when you have no other means to protect yourself (or your favorite toy or what ever) you resort to what you can do. A one off biting incident from a frazzled 4 year old would not be a huge red flag. But it would lead to serious consequences and follow up and if it happens often then would require a solid plan to end it. But again, if it was a crappy day all around and your son was just really at a loss for what to do then he may have just bitten because he didn't know what else to do. Help him know of what else he can do and make sure he doesn't resort to biting just to get what he wants.