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Biting Advice for DCM & I?
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storybookending
07:43 AM 10-12-2018
He is a new two or an older two? How is his language development?
I have/had a biter.. fingers crossed it has been a few months but he was a new two at the time. I set up a pack n play on both levels of my house and if I could not be directly next to him close enough to intervene if I saw signs that he was getting frustrated/aggressive to be able to step in, in the bed he went. If I had to feed a bottle or make lunch where I didn’t have my arms free he went into the pack n play. The kids called it his “bitey bed”. We also read the book “no biting” about a million times.
This kid has a oral fixation to the extreme and everything is in his mouth. We are getting better. Someone on here suggested a “bitey box” of toys that it was okay for him to chew on. They suggested something hard like a wooden block, something cloth like, something rubber (we used a toy dinosaur) and something silicone, they had suggested an infant tooth brush. He ended up taking a liking to a lovie that had harder “hands” and a silicone top. He hasn’t attempted to bite a friend in months but any time he’s chewing on any of the toys I redirect him to his “bitey toy” and he’ll go in the basket it’s in and sit and gnaw on it for a good while.
Is he biting at home too? If not there really isn’t much for mom to do if it is strictly a daycare issue.
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