Biting?

[pascy]

Has anyone any tips on biting? My 16m ds starting biting when being breastfed(hence me stopping at 10m) and because i yelped in pain; he laughed.So, since then, he will bite for a reaction or loud ouch. He seems to do it also, as a sign of affection!!!I've tried not to give a reaction, but it's very hard(he has a very hard bite)Plus, he slaps people in the face!!? Do i have some kind of neanderthal, bully boy???!!

[rubles]

No, my dd is/was definitely the same - but then perhaps she is some kind of neanderthal bully girl.
She is 21 months and biting was a sign of affection with her - whenever we were having fun she would ruin it by clamping on to some part of my face really very hard indeed. I started removing her from the room for that particular crime and she has stopped thankfully. She did/does the face hitting and that is the current reason for being removed from the room - that is more naughty because she seems to do it out of anger. Hopefully I'll crack that one soon.

[RachD]

It is a phase and it will pass.
Removing and just insisting that it is not acceptable, is all you can do, I think.

Ds was persistently bitten at nursery.
When he was bitten very badly on the face, I said it was "totally unacceptable".

So long as your children don't bite anyone else.
If it is just to you ( although that is obviously not good) , then atleast you can try to "deal" with it, at home.

[pascy]

Thank god, i'm not the only one. I think i shall try removing ds from the room every time he does it. Rubles, did you have to remove your dd for quite a long time, before it worked?

[rubles]

It did seem to take longer than I had envisaged - I think I thought it would take only a week or so but it may have been weeks. You just have to stick to your guns and be consistent.
My concern as RachD mentioned was/is to get it nipped in the bud before she does it to someone else.

[Heathcliffscathy]

ds bit for a year....:(

he still occasionally does it but much less so now....i tried timeouts, bellowing and confiscating beloved toys...all to no avail...the thing that seems to be doing the best job is saying not to do it but basically ignoring it so that he doesn't get the attention he wants from that behaviour.