re: How do I get my kid to quit biting

Sounds like your kid needs a time out.

A good long one. Maybe like 90 seconds long.

I gave the bar soap in the mouth warning the first time. When it happened the second time, there was no warning given. It worked like a charm.

behavioral therapist who works with children here, a few things.

Always use rewards over punishment over punishment. Instead of punishing him for biting you want to reward him for not biting. You want to start small and obtainable so first I would want to know how often the biting occurs. Set the initial goal low enough to obatin....maybe one short day at day care without biting and we get (insert whatever your kid would flip for here). After that goal is obtained stretch it. to a few days... a week until the behavior inst occurring. You always wanna decrease the size of the reward until you can fade it out totally. Or instead of fading it out you could replace behaviors..... so if he quits biting and starts acting up, speaking out of turn whatever you can insert that as what he needs to do to get the reward.

The most important thing is making sure he feels success witht his initially so hes motivated to keep acting right... he will build momentum, and make the correct behavior a habit.

Has the daycare said what was occurring when he bit? Was it over a toy etc?

My son had a biting issue when we was around 2 as well it was always his closest friend too. He outgrew it eventually but it took a lot of work explaining to him daily that biting was bad.

When he was 4 he did it again at a new daycare. Thought it was going to be a problem. But this daycare had cameras. One day i watched it to see what was going on. He was clearly being bullied by two other little boys but was fighting back. The teacher never noticed. The bully cried and told on him. My son got in trouble. I had the teacher on the phone 2 min later. She sat the other ones down and they admitted what happend and it all stopped.

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