Brendan is biting and I can't get him to stop! Help!

Tachia - posted on 10/19/2009

Jen, I have never heard the hot sauce thing for biting but it may work! We put hot sauce on my niece's thumb to get her to stop sucking it and it worked!

Tachia - posted on 10/19/2009

Quoting Lucy:

Biting a child is abuse! There are many more effective discipline methods. e.g. time out.

And what is time out doesnt work? IT IS NOT CHILD ABUSE! its teaching your child a lesson. You dont bite them hard enough to leave a mark or even hurt! Its just to get the point across. I never did bite my son but i did tap him on the mouth every time he bit me. It seemed to work because Time Outs DEFINITELY did not work and nothing else did either.

Jen - posted on 10/19/2009

We've biten my daughter back, slightly tapped her in the mouth, put her in time out, and popped her on the bottom. None of it has worked yet. She bit 3 times at day care last week including her teacher. She does't bite hard, but enough to hurt (no marks). I asked some other moms how they dealt with it and I was given 2 suggestions that I haven't tried yet. 1. Put a little bit of hot sauce on their tongue when they bite. and 2. Make them bite a small piece of soap. I'm not too sure about either idea, but if it becomes a really bad problem I may have to try the hot sauce.

Iysha - posted on 10/19/2009

I read that you're supposed to say, "Ouch..that hurts _______. Don't do that!" then walk away for a few minutes and have nobody interact with the child in any way....no looking at him, talking to him. Then come back and do whatever you were doing. I guess it is supposed to make them feel bad about doing it. My thought is that it is like a real life situation a child would experience on the playground. If you are mean to the person you are playing with, they are going to leave and find someone else to play with. No child wants their friends to leave them and not like them any more so they are nicer to them. I don't want to tell you not to bite your baby back, but if you try everything and it isn't working try it. I just wouldn't want that to be a first option...it seems a little cruel, but from what I have heard it seems to be effective.

Marie - posted on 10/19/2009

Biting him back will help him to understand that biting people hurts them. Its a bad habit and its effecting your other children. Its not abuse, noone is saying to draw blood or even leave a mark...but from experience it works.

Lucy - posted on 10/19/2009

Biting a child is abuse! There are many more effective discipline methods. e.g. time out.

Alicia - posted on 10/19/2009

it really does work to bite them back. ignore anyone that says its child abuse, im only talkin a little nip, no bruising or blood.



Good luck x

Carla - posted on 10/19/2009

I say same as Linda, my son was a biter and my family kept telling me to bite him back so one day i did just on the finger, he looked at me in shock then told me i was bad lol but he has never bitten since : )

Linda - posted on 10/19/2009

I know it sounds horrible, I didn't want to bite my baby either. But my daughter had a major biting problem when she was a baby and one day I finally gave in and bit back. Not to hard, of course I didn't really want to hurt her, but hard enough that it got the point accross. She didn't even cry, she just looked at me like I was crazy, but she never bit again. I wish I had some more tips for you, good luck!