How do you get a toddler to quit biting?

Hi, It depends on who he is biting. My Aunt had the same problem with her grandson (who she is raising) He started biting at 11 months and now at 18 months still does it occasionally.

The health nurse gave her this advice.

If he bites another child, move him away or to the side and put A LOT of fuss on the bitten child, cuddle them and give them lots of attention, while ignoring the biter. Tell him no or naughty when you move him to the side, but other then that ignore him. My nephew HATES it and gets upset by it.

If he is biting you, immediately put him down and turn away from him and ignore him for a bit. Say ouch and naughty, but then turn away.

If you do not see him do the biting it is hard to deal with as they quickly forget their actions. Hopefully he will stop, but this is the only thing that has helped my Aunt and my nephew now only bites when he is frustrated, but she still does this.

It is not always teething sometimes it is frustration, anger, control and attention.

Good Luck

It really depends on why he bites. If he's biting because he thinks it's fun watching people get upset from him biting then the best thing to do is to not make biting as fun or funny for him. Give him a stern "No, we don't bite" then give all the attention to the one bit. I don't know how old he is. If he's old enough you can give him a timeout, but don't give him a long lecture on biting. Keep the reaction to the biting to a minimum.

If he's teething, give him something else to bite like a frozen banana, a teething toy, or a wet washcloth.

If he's frustrated and does it because he can't express himself, try to help him solve his problems another way.

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When my dog was a puppy and I was training to stop biting, I would shove its tail in its mouth if it looked like it was about to bite. You could put the toddlers hand in its mouth when it looks like it is about to bite, that way it learns that biting is bad because it hurts.

My mother in-law had a problem with all her kids biting she said this is what she did to them and it worked the first time every time. as mean as this may sound it worked according to her, whenever he bites you bite him back, not hard to really hurt him , or leave any kind of mark. just enough so that he can feel it and knows it's not a nice thing to do. & i'm sure someone will comment saying that's abuse etc. not really I don't mean full on biting just give him a little "pinch" if he will. it worked for all 4 or her kids.

Well it sounds like hes teething and I think if you take him to a doctor they will give your baby a shot to make the pain of his teething stop hurting so much :D

Or you could give him a little toy to kind of chew on, it will soothe the pain for him.

Bite back, but not hard! Or smack the top of his hand and tell him no then if he cries just ignore him (he'll stop crying when he doesn't get attention)

They'll grow out of it. They want attention, give it to them.

i suggest using a high voltage shock coller

warm his little bottom up

Spank, take privilege away. NOW