Biting?

[kershnic]

Did/do your multiples bite each other? If so how do you handle it? If they were different ages I would probably hold the older one responsible, but they're both one and non-verbal.

Sometimes it happens when one is doing something dumb like sticking her fingers in her sister's mouth. But other times it's really purposeful out of frustration over a toy or something else desired. And sometimes she tries to bite us too. Mostly the same kid doing the biting.

[trafficgirl]

We've had issues with both biting and hitting. I ended up buying the books Teeth Aren't for Biting and Hands Aren't for Hitting. Mine are still a little young to fully understand (almost 1.5 years), but I think it's good to reinforce what teeth and hands are for, and that hitting and biting hurts people.

[fryjack2]

Honestly, nothing worked.

The boys would bite each other out of anger, or teething, or frustration. Weirdly, they never hit each other. It finally stopped about 4 months ago (around 2.5). It was bad from 1.5-2.3ish?

We just reinforced how it wasn't ok, that it hurt, and separated them.

They had a battle cry before biting. We would literally race across the house when we heard it because we knew a bite was coming.

[twotrue]

My boys went through a biting phase. The good thing is that they really only bit each other, not other kids at daycare. And it didn't last long. I'd say they each got a good 5-10 bites in. Now it is really sporadic. B stole a truck from E the other day and E chomped him really really good. But that was one of the first good one in months. I guess my point is, in our house it was a short phase and not serious. There wasn't much we could do about it. E was good about staying in time out but B would just laugh at a time outs.

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I have seen E going for K and trying to Bite but she doesn't seem to actually get a hold of her. I'll just keep reinforcing gentle hands etc. Because I think that's all you can really do.