OMG, my daughter the biter...

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DD is 2 and she has always been a biter.  She's bit me in the butt, arms, legs, you name it.  She always gets a time out and punishment.

I just got a text from H-  "Worst fear just came true"

She walked up to him and bit him in the crotch.  Like, really hard.

He screamed ouch and put her in time out and swatted her butt to get her away.  Little chick has quite the temper!

So other than time outs and saying no, any suggestions?  Bite her back?  She's old enough to know this by now!

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I don't have any suggestions but my parents always tell me about how once when I was trying to pull myself up into my dad's lap I bit down to try and pull up because my hands weren't doing the trick. Poor guy.

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My little brother was a biter, my mom bit him back once and that was that.

[papie]

Biting back does not work.

Immediate time-outs and ignoring her for the entire duration of the time-out. Then telling her sternly not to do that again.

It will stop eventually.

[tigress]

We did lots of timeouts. Oh man I forgot about the biting phase. My 15 month old must be getting close to the biting age, I hope she skips it altogether!

[luckyval]

Not cool, toddler!

I can't offer much advice - Hart did stop biting after months of time outs and lectures on "using words"

Now we're on to spitting.

So, the biting will stop. And you'll have something else to look forward to

[eb777888]

My MIL told me to bite David, lol.

David was a horrible, horrible biter. It was hell. He usually only bit me but did bite one kid at the gym, then two kids in preschool. Honestly, it was a long hard road and NOTHING we tried worked. Nothing. And he bit until he was 3. Thank god we're done with that phase.

Funny think is, he was such a sweet kid, never hit or pushed, biting was how he expressed he was mad. Time outs, taking things away, I'd get as harsh as you can for her age.

[Redpoppy]

Getting bit back is what finally stopped a kid I used to babysit. It was another kid that bit him back, hard too. Luckily parents on both sides were understanding as it was an ongoing issue until that final bite.