Toddler biting still

[leckert]

I'd perhaps try seeing a pediatric OT with experience with sensory and communication issues. Might help to give you a more comprehensive assessment of the triggers and give you strategies to meet whatever need (whether it be sensory, communication or behavioral) that the biting is currently serving.

Good luck Hun, sounds extremely frustrating and upsetting. Oxo

How do I go about seeing pediatric OT? I'm not entirely sure I know what an OT is - occupational therapist? I don't see a mchn regularly (never have ) and DS' GP has recently left the family practice we go to with DS and I haven't gotten a new regular one (the one I saw after the original one I wasn't too keen on)


For now I think we'll be continuing with the teething gel at cc and see if that makes a difference - I just have to remember to write it up in the medicine register (and get some more)

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[Miss E]

what an awful position to be in

From the little I know about biting at this age it can often be about gaining attention. Do you know how the carers address the situation when it happens? Perhaps changing the way they deal with it could be the key to resolving it... Especially if he doesn't do it home.

At our centre, if a child hits/bites/whatever another child, the carers shower the victim with attention and pretty much ignore the other child for a couple of minutes. Then they explain to that child that biting hurts ya de dah. Once the child is off doing something positive they make a point of praising and reinforcing the positive behaviour.

Personally, I think your decision not to bite him back is a good one. I'd actually be a bit concerned that one of the carers even suggested that in the first place TBH.

HTH

[Kazbah]

I had a biter. It's 'orrid. What worked for us was that every morning we'd draw a train on the whiteboard. If he bit anyone, the carers would rub it off and that meant no playing with trains that evening at home.

How is his speech? A lot of it with Pip was his inability to communicate, and his frustration. Using some cards like "stop" does help. I know how you feel, I spent so many hours crying about his biting. Biting back achieves nothing.