17 month old biter...need advice!?

ive heard that you have to show them how it feels. but you have to catch them in the act or soon after. you bite them back...not hard enough to break the skin or really hurt them but just to get your point across. ive personally never had this problem and if i did im not sure id feel right about biting my kid, but who knows maybe it would work

My son is 19 mo. but he does not bite. At the preschool i work at and at home with my son the technique we use i think is the best. Whenever a child in our toddler room tries to bite or does bite i give them something they do bite. Such as a frozen teether, crackers, or bread, or some other kinds of rubber toys. I am the lead teacher so i have the responsibility of keeping the toddlers from biting and bite free lol but i also have rubber toys and other toys they can bite that wont hurt there teeth and when i see them trying to bite another child I say "Aaiden we dont bite lily or anyone else but we do bite crackers would you like a cracker? " or " Aaiden we dont bite are your teeth hurting is that why your biting? But anyways just give him a cracker or something everytime he tries to bite or does bite. good luck.

Im also a daycare provider and have had biters in my daycare and my middle Son was a biter. The provider needs to take action as soon as the incident happens such as removing ur Son from the situation, telling him what he did was not nice, and putting him in time out. You as the parent can just reinforce this at home which it sounds like you are doing. Don't worry to much some kids go threw this stage.

I have 2 suggestions. 1 soft approach and one more creative kind.

1st, if you are not the 'aversion therapy' type of parent, there is a book for toddlers called, "Teeth are not for biting" I can't attest as to its ability to stop a kid from biting, but I have heard good things about it.

2nd, the approach that was used on me when I was little (very effective on me). Tabasco Sauce. It doesn't physically hurt the child, but I guarantee after the first 'saucing of the tongue' he will be crazy to bite again!

I guess you'll just have to keep reminding him. Ask him how he'd feel if someone were to bite him.

It's just a phase he'll grow out of it.

my niece did this for about a year to everyone in the family. she left bruises on me, brought blood. it was terrible. so one day she bit my sis, and my sis turned around the bit the living **** out of her back. she left bruises BUT it completely stopped that day.

might not be the best advice, but i have heard from many people it is the only way to break them.