I'm one of "those" parents...

People see me and DS2 walk into the room at childcare and pick up their children. I was near to tears this morning whe I dropped him off. He was the model of perfection when we first got there. A couple of children arrived and he was still okay. Once the room was quite crowded he started with the hitting and trying to bite.

The childcare centre policy does not allow "time out" yet from what I've read that seems to be the only thing that will work. I have a meeting with them shortly to try and discuss some tactics.

What I'm concerned about is, how soon do you know if your child has behavioural problems? He's active (very active) - climbs, runs, is in to everything. He's what my grandmother calls "a real boy". I've tried all sorts of things with the biting. Last night I told him "please don't bite mummy" when he went in for a chomp. He pointed to my arm and said "bite". ???????? Did that mean, he wanted to take a bite? was sorry for the bite? or just repeating the word 'bite'?

Sorry - it's a bit garbled but I just wanted to know if anyone has had similar experiences and what they did to help them stop.