Biting at daycare
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What is your advice on getting toddler to stop biting at daycare when he doesn’t bite us at home.
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I don’t think you can and most parents struggle with this for at least one of their kids. I think it’s par for the course 🥴 it’ll pass
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Don't laugh, but when my oldest was 2 she was a biter. So I bit her finger (not hard) and explained that it hurts when we bite so we do not do it. She didn't like it, but also never bit again.
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Unless they are attacking children I saw let it slide? What can toddlers really understand/control? Maybe i'm off here but I feel like it's normal
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As a speech/language pathologist my first thought to explore is that a child that bites is typically trying to communicate in some way. I would be interested to know the age of your child, what the situations are where the biting occurs, does your child have words yet, etc. If not, I would seek an evaluation from a speech/language pathologist to help come up with methods for the child to communicate to replace the biting.
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My son was a massive biter in the 1/2 YO class (sometimes so many times he got kicked out of school for the day) and I was blessed with a daycare teacher who tracked when he was doing it. It came down to frustration. The friend could walk and he couldn’t yet or could talk and he couldn’t yet, etc. She advised we take one of those thick cactus teethers and tell him when he’s frustrated to grab that cactus and bite it. Sounds silly, but it worked. He’d go grab it. Then, once he was older and could do the same as friends and understood we didn’t need it anymore. Obviously this requires buy in from anyone who watches the child through the day, but might help.
