Doesn't it look totally innocent and lovable? Well don't get him angry. You won't like him when he is angry.We are having a major problem with Evan's temper. Today he tried to take a cracker away from Erick and when I stopped him he clawed my face. The main person he takes his anger out on is Erick. Poor kid always has scratch marks on his face from Evan. When Evan was sick a few weeks ago I told Isaac I could tell he wasn't feeling good because Erick had no new scratches on his face.
Yesterday was a bad day. Evan didn't take a very long nap so he was extra grumpy. He kept biting Erick's arm.
One of the times he did it he was mad at me because I had stopped him from pulling down the baby gate and he chased Erick down, grabbed his arm and bit till I pulled him off.
Here is his arm today.
He even bit Hazel a few days ago and left a nice mark on her arm.
I don't know what to do with this kid. We have tried Time Outs. He thinks they are funny. I have heard people say you should bite him back but I feel that just teaches them that it is ok to bite "if mommmy does it then I can do it". Any suggestions?
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My friend bit her little girl back and she never bit again . . .
My word verification is lesley. funny.
Wow- that's a tough one! Brendan used to pretend that he thought time out was funny too. Then we just kept him there- instead of a time limit, we made him stay there until he was ready to be nice. Once he stayed there for 3 hours!
My mother in law says that kids with bad habits (she's a special ed teacher) need "over saturation" of that habit. Give him a piece of wood to bite on- or something to bite on, and MAKE him bite on it over and over until he gets sick of it. Kelly did this with her son. He kept picking her garden OUT and so she made him pick her crab apple tree until he got tired of picking. It took a while, but he got tired of it. That's a really long comment- but's one suggestion... Good luck!
muzzle......
Just kidding, my mom had that problem with Coby so she bit him and he stopped. Poor Erick, I feel bad for the kid. His little arm.
I gave in and bit him back. I thought I would try it just this one time and see if it works. I feel horrible! but he hasn't bit Erick again. We will see if it worked.
Hmm, Mere likes to hit her brother in the face or slap him, I really don't think she's trying to hurt him, she wants to see what he'll do or she's just being wild. I haven't tried time outs yet but yesterday and today when she did something like that to Glenn I would do it back to her, not hard enough to hurt and say not hitting and she would pause and look at me like she realized what she was doing and stop without any fuss. I think kids often don't realize exactly what they're doing. Biting back I think brings them to reality rather than if mom can I can, especially at such a young age...every kid's different though...
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