Two year old biting?

DS2 has just started biting his big brother. It's becoming a bit of a habit and he's really hurting his brother. DS1 has 3 bite marks on him at the moment :o

There's a bit of a chain reaction to it all, kids are playing well then it changes in a split second, they have a little arguement and DS2 bites or attempts to bite. DS1 is now learning to get away quick which usually means DS2 will run after him and still try and bite him. It's getting to the point where DS2 is doing it as attention seeking also, he's a bit of an agrovator a lot of the time. The gorgeous cheeky boy he is but i just can't have him bitting his brother like he is and/or another other child (i hope it never comes to that :pray:).

DS1 is 4 and i'm trying very hard to get him to understand not to provoke DS2 and if he is trying to bite him to get away and tell me. When DS2 has bitten i remove him and get him to sit somewhere by himself and tell him it's wrong. But is there any other advice out there on ways to deal with this. My mum says bite him back but i don't think i can do that.

Thanks ladies :)

Im in the same boat so I will be watching this... DD2 who is 2, bites her sister who is nearly 4. It happens when dd1 snatches something off her or sits on her or just provokes. I figure its the only way she can protect herself when I am not around because she is much smaller than her big strong sister! The other night DD2 actually took a chunk out of DD1s arm..... I gave her a tap on the hand, growled at her not to bite and sent her to her room and made her appologise. DD1's arm is still healing!
I am at a loss what to do. I know shes doing it to protect herself but I dont know how to teach her to do something else.... actually I just dont know what to do!!! Good luck!

Happens here too. My kids are 2 1/2 and nearly 4. DS1 bit DD the other day and she has a terrible bite mark on her tummy, and another smaller one on her arm. Though in his defence, DD taught him to do it, by biting him in the first place. But DD has great language skills and can talk to DS1 where his language skills aren't as good as hers are and he gets frustrated easily. I am putting DS into time out, then coming to apologise to DD. Telling him it hurts DD, isn't nice and he needs to talk to her, not bite. I give him an example of what to say and get him to repeat it to DD. I also get DD to tell DS how she feels after he's bitten her. I explain to DD why DS bit her and if she used her words he probably wouldn't have done it.

Well Hana (2) bit Lily the other day on the tummy, it was huge and bleeding. Lily was screaming. First of all I attended to Lily it was huge ice pack was applied than I told Hana that she hurt her sister and she will have to sit on time out for a little while. It's been a couple of days since it happened and everytime Lily gets dressed I show hana what she did. Biting is really hard to monitor as it can happen in a split second you just need to keep an eye on what triggers the biting and give time out each time he bites

cathie

Yep happening here too. My 2yr old DD is biting her 3yr old sister...she can leave some horrid marks on her.
She is also pulling her hair so hard she pulls it out :o
It also happens when they are fighting over a toy or DD2 snatches a toy of her.
She gets told how naughty her behaviour is and put in time out.