Posted by: JudyB, March 4, 2010 in 11:35 am
My 2 year old has recently started biting. I believe he is using it as self defense. One little boy always grabs toys out of his hands and my son’s initial reaction is to bite his hand to get him to let go of the toy. Supposedly it’s out of frustration because he can’t talk that well yet. I know it’s bad and I’m working with him but if one more person says something to me as if it’s my fault, i’m going to punch them (guess the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree). One mother asked how I was disciplining him, as if I haven’t read every book about this. I’m doing what you’re supposed to do. Punishing him immediately and giving more attention to the child that has been bit. Another mother asked what was going on at
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Posted by: amy, April 15, 2009 in 10:04 am
Oh my gosh, how can I pick just one?? I guess the very least-perfect was when my daughter was teething. She was about one, and I was just getting a raging case of post-partum depression under control. She was nursing and she bit me. I popped her off and said, “NO! We do NOT bite! That HURT Mommy!” and she laughed at me. I almost lost it. I had to put her in her crib and Walk Away. I’ve never come so close to shaking either of my kids as I did that day. On the other hand, maybe the fact that I *didn’t* shake her, that I did the responsible thing and put her somewhere safe and walked away until I was calm, well, maybe that means it wasn’t such an imperfect parent after all. I mean, everyone’s going to get mad, everyone’s going to be driven crazy by their kids. I guess the test is what we do with that anger and that crazy in the moment.
