Wont Stop Biting!!!

Hello N., how are you doing girl and the kids? I hate to hear that Necco is biting but let me give you a suggestion...bite the fool out of him!!! when he bites then you bite him back right that second and if that doesn't work then the next thing is to pop him in the mouth!!! Not real hard to start but if he keeps it up then you get harder!! I had to go through this with Jordyn, my grandson that I have! but try the biting him back first and again just keep biting him harder and harder and if it doesn't bother him then you need to pop him! all my other children didn't like me to bite them back so it didn't take long for them to stop but Jordyn was a little stinker and he pushed me past the biting!! Good luck...how are Destiny and Trinity doing? Do y'all have Noah already? well it has been good to talk to you again and yes I have a myspace...http://www.myspace.com/heymama25 Love ya! D.

My 13 month old started biting not long after he got some teeth. I talked to the doctor about it and he suggested telling him no each time he bit and putting him in a time out for a minute. We did that consistently and also told him that he hurt us when he bit. Eventually, he stopped. Consistency is the key.

My son bit me once, and only once. I bit him back and he never did it again. You don't have to bite hard enough to leave a mark, just hard enough to get their attention. My son was almost 1 when I had to do this. I just bit him back immediately, said "Hurt? Don't bite!" He never bit again. He didn't know what kind of pain he caused until he felt a bit of it himself. I know it hurts when they draw blood, but you don't have to draw blood or leave a bruise to show him how bad it feels when you are bitten.

My daughter was really bad about biting and I bit her 1 time and she never did it again. I felt bad because it left a mark a bruise. If you bite him just bite down hard enough until you get his attention. I hope this helps.

Hey, I have a little one that loves to bite too! This is going to sound mean, but if you'll bite him back when he bites you, he'll stop. I don't bite super hard or anything, but I do it until I get his attention to let him know that it doesn't feel good. Then I also tell him No! It took only a few times of that, and he doesn't bite very much anymore. The only time I have caught him biting since, is when his older brother bugs the mess out of him. And I still get on to him, and it is getting better! Best of Luck!

N.,
I have a son that is 14 now but when he was younger he would bite lots. I tried all kinds of different methods to get him to stop. But in the end what worked was when I bit him back. I did not bit very hard but hard enough for him to see that it hurts when you get bitten. He never bit anyone again after I did that.
Good luck,
J.

Bite him back. He will stop. I know it works.

Try putting a dab of vinegar in his mouth each time he bites. Get a small plastic bottle....like a travel size shampoo bottle...and keep it with you. Draw a sad face on the bottle and each time he bites pull it out and put a dab on your finger and put it in his mouth. Your finger may get bit the first few times, but soon enough he will figure it's not worth it!

Bite him back, that is how my mother cured me and I had to bite both of my girls too, and none of us bit again. You need to make it hurt too, he needs to understand why we don't bite and when he sees that it hurts he will stop. I know it may seem cruel, but it really is not. I made a mark on both of my girls and every time they looked at it, they would start to cry and I told them that if they bit again, I would bite them again. Needless to say, I never had to bite them again. It killed my inside to do it, but the Lord tells us to discipline our children - and if we truly love them, we will.
Hope this helps and good luck.

My son who is now 3 started biting when he was 1 and it got so bad I was covered in bruises. So, I told him it was not nice to bite and that biting hurts. But, he kept on biting so I bit him back one time and he did not like it at all. I told him that does not feel good does it and he said no. I told him if he bites I am going to bite back and after a few times of this he quit. I know it is horrible to bite your own child. But, I was at my wits end with him and that was the only thing I could get to work for me. Maybe someone has something better to add. But, that was my 2 cents.

N., I am so sorry to hear about the biting. I've posted to you before, I think, and I'm not sure what to tell you to do. My son does the same thing, except he doesn't bit the walls and furniture. My guy seems to be doing better about the biting and now he's real bad about pulling hair. It's embarrassing when he does it to other people or their kids. I had him in a little daycare at the gym for just about an hour and he bit or tried to bite another toddler. I was so embarrassed and decided not to take him anymore. And if it were my kid getting bitten by another I don't think I would be too happy. I put him on the time-out chair and he thinks it's a game, he actually will put himself in time-out, get back up and go at it again. Here is what has helped a little and I think we are making progress: I put him in his crib for time out (he is now in a toddler bed),if I had a play yard I wasn't using I'd probably use that instead, but don't do that since your guy is probably still sleeping in the crib. The minute he bites or pulls hair he goes in timeout, he gets no chances or warnings, he immediately goes to time out. I know by now he knows it is wrong. ANd it is so emabarrassing. On many occasions I have pulled his hair in return and that did not work. So, not a lot of advice, except just to hang in there and hopefully our boys will get it all out of their systems and be the sweetest little men on the face of the earth. hee hee hee hee hee hee hee ha ha ha.

I don't really know what to say. This is my first time to read anything here and everyone is saying to bite your children? My kids have gone through biting spells-and even still do-but I have never bit them. Time out works and letting them know how much it hurts. Children go through phases and returning the action will only reinforce it. Violence and physical pain breed confusion, anger, and fear-not something want from a three year old. Like the other person said-consistency is key. Good luck with everything.

I agree with the majority of the mothers. When he bites bite hime back, now I noticed everyone here said they only had to do it once. Well, I was not that lucky I had to do it a couple times. WIth my two year who is now three when I bit him the first time, he looked at me, then laughed, then got quiet. I think he was in shock. THe second time he bit me back, by this time I am thinking great it isn't working. So I tried one more time, after three times he stopped and sometimes he would look like he was going to bite me and I would say to him do you want me to bite you. He would stop immediately. I think he was testing me just like everything else to see if I was serious, that why it took a few times. Also, you cold try lemon juice or hot sauce on his tongue, if you can't get anything else to work. I hope this helps. By the way I have four boys, one fifteen months, three years old, and two seven years old.

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N.,

Honey my heart goes out to you. My daughter is 2 now and we just broke her from bitting about 3 months ago. She started at about 7-8 months old. You can try bitting his fingers (mark want show) didn't work for me probably because I didn't have the heart to bite hard enough to make a difference. We tried timeout, vinager, spakings...you name it...we finally about 4 months ago used hot sauce...2 weeks and she totaly stoped bitting for a whole month until a child bite her then she just bit them right back and that was all. She has even been bit serveral times since then but does not bit. I am not sure why your son is bitting so much but "no joke" have you thought of putting a whole in a wash rag or even a teething ring and putting it either on a pacifer holder or around his neck with a very loose string and giving him that for him to bit. Please let me know how it goes..by the way how old is your son?

A.