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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that disengaging in the moment, and processing later is a good strategy, but an 11 year old who is melting down to the point where they're biting needs professional help.

Whether that's medical help from a psychiatrist, or individual or family therapy, or a combination, I don't know, but biting crosses a pretty specific line.  I'm a special educator, I've worked with kids with Emotional Disturbance at that age, and almost all kids, unless there are significant developmental disabilities, are able to inhibit the impulse to bite.

I'm also the parent of a child with a mental illness, so I'm not saying this judgmentally.  A good professional can help immensely.  Please don't wait any longer. [/quote]

Yeah, well, you don't live with them. If they bite in the classroom then you know something is wrong. Homevis where kids let their crazy out.
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If there's enough "crazy" in them that they're biting their mother, then there's enough to warrant a trip to a professional.[/quote]

Perhaps. Pick a good professional and they might give you some good cooing strategies and let you know this is in some range of normal. Pick a bad one and suddenly its bipolar disorder.

I had a brother who was mentally ill too and he wasn't the ones having meltdowns - he was the quiet one.
The one who had screaming meltdowns all of his life is a successful lawyer now. He's pretty calm now. Sometimes they need outlets - for that brother it was the military marching band at school.[/quote]

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