My DS got bitten the second day of daycare. I wanted to wrap him up in cotton wool and never let him out of the house again.

BUT... I realised that I can make these events into positive learning experiences. I can talk about why biting isn't cool (as he now has experienced first hand), and I can talk about how you deal with people being unkind. I teach him to say "stop that, I don't like it" and "let's be friends" (provided the other child stops the behaviour!). I can't spend the rest of his life creating controlled environments for him, so I might as well start teaching him the skills he'll need to deal with all kinds of people, and to create positive relationships out of potentially difficult ones.

They are in different rooms now, but for a while there he used to name the biter as his best friend.

And I try to go easy on the parents, because I know next time it could be my child doing the biting!