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From: barb@pyuxa.UUCP (B E Nemeth)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: 2 year old biting habits
Message-ID: <1320@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 11:22:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 11:22:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 06:24:09 EDT
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We're having some problems getting our
2 year old daughter to stop biting.
It started with her just biting Mommy,
(me).  Once in a while she'll nibble on
Daddy, Grandma, Auntie, Uncle and she
once bit her 8 year old cousin.
But basically she loves biting Mommy.
I got a real thrill last week when she
went to kiss me, and bit my lips. Ouch!
When I found out she bit Uncle and cousin
I realized I had to get more serious.
So I have tried all of the following:

I bit her back - not hard to hurt but
it left a slight impression.

I put some vinegar on her tongue.  She
loved it.

We have a "naughty" chair she sits in
and has been put into after biting Mom.
Didn't result in not biting.

Her favorite activity is going to
"Chuck E. Cheese's" a kiddie land pizza place,
so I said to her "remember if you bite, no
Chuck E. Cheese."

The above seemed to work better than anything
else but the biting behaviour is still there.

Actually I hate threatening.  I originally
tried just reasoning with her; your biting
hurts Mommy, you don't want to hurt Mommy
do you. (She smiles and says yes).

Believe me, she really is a sweet one except
with this biting.  Imagine washing dishes
and having someone take a bit out of your
thigh while you are wearing shorts!  Loud
screams result and it is not fun!
So HELP please.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Barb Nemeth
201-981-7067 work
pyuxa!barb


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