Preschooler biting?

Question

My little brother was recently enrolled in preschool. He was only in it for about 2 months and then got kicked out for biting. Is this normal and if it is not any advice?

Answer 1

Unfortunately it is a common practice for centers to terminate children for biting.  Often children bite when they are experiencing difficulty communicating.  It is common for toddler children but much less common for preschool children.  Has your brother had a speech and language evaluation.  If the children he was playing with had significant language abilities he may have been intimidated by all of the conversation.  

If his speech and language are at typical levels, it could be that he was bullied.  Pushing and yelling from children is much more tolerated in a group setting, unfortunately.  He may have been protecting himself but the teachers may not have been aware of the children antagonizing him.

Answer 2

school had no legal rites to kick your child out, biting is a normal behaviour that most kids do and grow out of

Answer 3

A day care knows that young kids learn to bite and have ways of trying to distract them from biting, however they also have to think of the other children in the care center, if this is an ongoing thing they have to protect the other children in this center, therefore they will ask for a child to be removed from their center, not because the child is bad but because they need to protect the other children.

Answer 4

Bitters are bitters. Figure out what he is getting out of biting. It is the end all of any confrontation, you bite the kid goes home, you bite at school, someone is removed from the situation. You bite you get kicked out of the school, it is a great power source for many kids. Unfortunately, some kids bite and there isn't anything you can do about it. Believe me I tried everything to get my kid not to bite, and kids are what I specialize in....He loved to bite kids and watch what would happen. Moms would say, "If you bite Katie, she will have to go home"...well, then he bit her and she left. There you go, he had the house to himself. Yes, biting is unfortunately normal for some kids and not for others.

Answer 5

I find it unfair that he was kicked out instead of them trying to figure out what was making him bite.  I'd say that he is frustrated with something and try to figure out what is happening right before he bites.  If he never bites again, then there was something going on in that daycare that wasn't good and it's best that he isn't there anymore.  When your parents find a new daycare, have them ask what the policy is on biting.  Lots of children bite for any number of reasons (like being frustrated with being able to communicate, to get attention, or pure meanness) but daycares can't kick out all the biters because then there wouldn't be anybody for them to watch.  

Just remember, NEVER them back.  that doesn't teach them anything.  I worked at a daycare years ago where one of the children bit another child, the owner bit that child back.  Her daycare got shut down.

Answer 6

i have worked with many pre school children and biting isnt the norm! Some children do bite and all you can do is tell them its wrong and show them what they have done and how little tommy is crying because you hurt him and its not a nice thing to do. He will grow out of it eventually. I can understand why he has lost his place at pre school. It makes you a bundle of nerves if you have a biter in as they need one to one surveillance something that you find impossible to do in a childcare situation. We have had to take this step in the past....dont forget the pre school workers have to tell a parent that their child has been bitten and the parents will often see it as lack of supervision.....which isnt the case in our setting. hope he grows out of it soon!

Answer 7

Kids bite for many different reasons.  Some bite to see what will happen, others bite because they are angry and don't know how to express it any other way, some bite because they are teething and some bite just to bite.

You brother is not the first kid to get kicked out of preschool, but it's something you have to stop.

You need to figure out why he's biting and make sure he knows other ways to deal with what he's going through.

It will also matter how old he is.  If he's in preschool then he's old enough to know it's NOT okay.

Answer 8

Lots of little kids bite I think it's pretty normal ..

Answer 9

yes its normal teachers will over react and say untrue things so ya its normal maybe cuz attention or teething