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  • Toddler to be kicked out of day care for biting?

    My daughter is 17 months old, and she's recently started biting other kids when they get in arguments over toys. Twice now she's broken the skin of other kids. The day care is extremely scared of liability, so they sent her home for this week, which is very difficult as my wife and I both work and have no family or back-up day care in this area. Now they're willing to take her back, but if she bites like this again, they say their going to kick her out. So I have two questions:

    1) Have you had this situation (the biting) and how did you resolve it?

    2) Isn't it a bit extreme to kick out a 17 MONTH OLD for a pretty normal behavior?

    For a little more background, I have two older kids (7 and 9) who never went through this. In fact, they WERE bitten in day care when they were young, and no kid every got kicked out for it. Also, we have always had doubts about the toddler's teacher and her ability to handle any kind of issue - this has really confirmed it.

    THANKS!

    18 AnswersToddler & Preschooler1 decade ago