As a person who worked in a center, specifically in the 1-year-old class, I can tell you that it is REALLY hard to stop a toddler from biting.

I don't know how many kids they have in the room in your center, but ours was allowed 8 until we had to have a 2nd teacher in there.

And you can't keep a child in a time-out chair for longer than 5 minutes with state.

I would keep the 2 known biters in the chairs while I changed the other kids.

But when I put them down, it was like I had a room full of vampires and werewolves. There would be scratching ( even though I kept on parents to TRIM thier kids nails.... And there would be biting.

I would fuss at the biter, put them in time out, and console the bitee. Including showing the biter what they did, and that it isn't nice.

I felt bad for the ones that got bit, but 1/2 of the time it was their fault. They would be aggravating the biter ( taking toys, pushing, crawling on top of them). And until they are closer to 2 and can speak, biting is their form of communicating " get away from me".

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