My 18 month old daughter is beginning to bite us :P?

Question

It was funny the first few times but now it is getting annoying and quite painful. How do I discipline a one and a half year old and teach her that biting others is wrong??

Answer 1

Bite her back.

Answer 2

Probably get thumbs down, but bite her back. It works. Just don't bruise her. She will understand that it hurts that way.

Answer 3

Okay, ignore EVERY piece of advice to bite your child back. THAT IS SIMPLY IDIOTIC! IT WILL NOT HELP!

With that said, we'll go into what you should do with a biting child. You immediately need to unlatch her from the bitten party, and firmly state NO BITING. Then you give your attention to whomever has been injured rather than the child to reassert the idea that biting is not okay, and will not get her attention. It might take a few times, or even more than a few, but it will sink in and her teeth will stop sinking in.

Punishing a child at that age is difficult. The idea of biting the child to show her it hurts too is ludicrous, as 18-month-olds don't possess the full range of cognitive abilities like empathy, either physical or mental. They will have, at best, a very HARD TIME understanding that being bitten back is like them biting you, and may in fact bite more when you do it and show that it is acceptable behavior. It could even show them it's acceptable behavior to any situation in which they are provoked, threatened, or otherwise overstimulated.

Answer 4

It's a limited of time habit not unless if you smack lightly on the mouth for every time she/ he does not. The toddler will forget it right away.

Answer 5

I know some parents give them a little nip back, Not hard, But just to show her that it actually hurts.

I know i will get tons of thumbs down for this, But ive heard from tons of people that they pretty much stop biting straight away.

And i dont mean full on bite her, Just a tiny teeny little nip. Just to show her it hurts.

Answer 6

my daughter did the same thing all i did was bite her back and then when that stopped then she started to bite her self everytime she did i would smack her hand

Answer 7

My daughter had a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR problem with this.    :(    I tried everything, I bit her back, I hate to admit but I finally bit her back hard.  I slapped her mouth everytime she bit and nothing worked.  One day at daycare she bit 12 times!!!!  NOTHING worked.  She bit and bit and bit, anyone anytime and anywhere.  Then she went to a new daycare and I was terrified they were going to kick her out because of the biting, so they watched her very closely and stopped her before she would bite, she got a few kids, but in the end, I think that prevention worked for her.  I would try anything and everything suggested, just want you to know that it happens with most kids, some worse than others.  (My kid, haha)  Hang in there and know that she will grow out of it eventually just don't lose your sanity in the meantime.    GOOD LUCK!!

Answer 8

OK, first of all, no biting back.

By now, she knows what "ouch" means.  She also knows what "no" means.

The bigger deal you make of it, the more she'll do it to get attention.  Both of my boys went through this stage, and it's pretty normal.  Let her know she's hurting you and move on!

Answer 9

When she bites you, tell her NO!