Ugh... A Biter... I'm Exhausted And It's Only 8:30

[youretooloud]

I haven't had a biter for 17 years. And, that was MY own child. She was vicious.

Friday, the 12 month old started biting. I feel like it's our fault. (my fault) He's always liked to roughhouse or annoy the other kids, so I allowed them to roughouse back with him when he starts it. But, now as soon as he gets near one of them, he bites them instead. So, the kids spend the whole morning yelling "Ahh... he's coming!!"

So, I am wearing him on my back in a mei tai. I'm actually sitting on him at the moment. He's on my back, and I'm in a desk chair.

Refresh my memory. I can shadow him. I can wear him. I can park his little butt in a playpen. But, what else can I do?

[jessrlee]

:: *this is totally in jest!!

Today- You ARE a babysitter!

[cheerfuldom]

I don't have any advice. The only thing I know to do is to separate him until he gets over it. One of my daycare provider friends had to separate one little boy all day every day for like 6 months.

[countrymom]

he has to be biting them at home too. I had one gma who didn't understand why she was biting here, till one day she bit gma so hard it drew blood. Gma was dealing with the biting her way. All I can tell you to do is seperate them, its such a headache, I don't know why some bite and some don't, my kids never bit.

[youretooloud]

he has to be biting them at home too.

He's been biting his brother since Thursday night. They are using a playpen thing to keep him from his brother. We haven't actively done anything about the biting it'self though.. just keeping him away from everybody else.

[SilverSabre25]

The only thing I can think of to add is that if he does bite (or even tries to bite) you get right in his face with a very stern/mad look on your face and say in a very deep, stern voice, "No biting. Biting hurts. No bite friends!"

The expression coupled with the tone will tell him that what he was doing was not ok. At his age, I wouldn't complicate it with "bite food not friends" or anything like that--just the basics. He isn't going to get the words anyway, just the tone.

Oh, and kudos to your for being brave enough to wear a biter on your back...I'd be in fear of getting bitten at any moment!

[PeanutsGalore]

Well, I was actually popping by this morning to look for suggestions on a similar issue. Mine doesn't bite, but he does pull hair and just plays too rough. It finally dawned on me that I just have to keep them all very seperate and make sure that when they are playing together, I'm right on the ground with them to redirect before the tussling starts. Any other suggestions?