Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its normal a few times but this sounds excessive and not normal.

+1 I’m on a warpath to get a kid kicked out of my DDs daycare class. The child has bitten my DD 4 times and broken skin. The daycare is monitoring the situation but the child needs to be gone. We are talking to attorneys.

Inadequate supervision. Chances are other kids are hitting, kicking, shoving, pulling hair and other similar things that the staff are not intercepting. Bites just happen to stand out more. Pull and protect your child.

My child was bitten repeatedly by the same kid at daycare. Instead of being on a warpath, I tried being sympathetic and realizing that sometimes toddlers do what toddlers do, no matter how hard parents try.

My daughter was a biter. The school worked with us and it got under control. It's normal.

My son used to bite - it doesn't sound like this much, but he did it two times and I was MORTIFIED. He never did it at home. We got the book Teeth are Not for Biting and basically read it constantly over and over. He stopped. I don't think the book was magic, I think he just grew out of it, but it helped me to think I was at least trying to do something, since like you, I never witnessed an actual bite.

Biting is developmentally appropriate for the age but in my experience, there is no quick solution to stopping it. When you start to see the same child biting a couple of times per week, we have to consider if it’s appropriate for group care. If other parents start complaining, the Director’s hands are tied since there is a responsibility to keep the other kids safe from bites.