If the baby bites when teething - this is quite normal. However, what if the teeth are already in place and the child continues to “try on the tooth”? This is usually a sign of aggression, along with a fight or disobedience.
When is this normal?
It is necessary to distinguish single cases and constant manifestations. An isolated case - a child accidentally bit someone during the game, but stopped when remarked. This behavior is quite normal. If the child constantly bites, thus answering any comments, this is a sign of some problems, most likely psychological. Just the baby can not put his inner feelings into words, so he finds an affordable way.
Reasons - Why a Baby Bites
It should be understood that the main problem is not that the child bites. The reasons are much deeper and more serious. And it is first of all that they should be eliminated, and then the baby itself will eventually cease to behave aggressively. These reasons may be different.
Physical Domestic Violence
A child from such a family bites because it is the norm for him. He simply repeats what he sees everyday. It is necessary to stop physically punishing the child with cuffs, slaps, and so on. It is enough to confine oneself to comments and discussion of conflict situations. Gradually realizing that physical superiority is not the best way to show oneself, the child will unlearn bite.
Lack of love and attention
This behavior causes a violent reaction of parents. The child understands this and begins to bite to get their attention. Parents should reconsider their attitude - are they sufficiently interested in his feelings, emotions, is there enough non-verbal contact. The child may just be upset, tormented by jealousy. Need to talk to him about him. Not about his successes or failures, but about him - what bothers him, what kind of relationship with his peers, whether something hurts him. Even a three-year-old baby with the right questions is able to give answers to such questions. Feeling that his parents understand and love him, he will stop using this method to attract attention.
Oversupply
Oddly enough, but this form of protest can be caused by an excess of attention when the child is not at all given freedom. Thus, he protests, declares his independence. Total control has never led to anything good. Parents need to enable their child to make mistakes, make their own decisions. Then the baby will stop aggressively expressing their demands and desires.
Environment
The reason for biting can be the behavior of other children in the environment of the baby. At the age of three to four years, all the guys copy each other's behavior. Maybe someone in the kindergarten or on the playground brought this habit. Then it is better for parents to talk directly with the teacher so that he has an impact on the children's team.It will also be useful to talk with the parents of such a child, because their child becomes socially dangerous and they are obliged to take measures. If this is not possible or parental requests have not been heard, you must independently influence the baby. Show and tell various tales about the dangers of biting (there are more than enough of them on the Internet).
Way of expressing feelings
Little crumbs of two to three years old do not speak very well. Therefore, most of their feelings are expressed by physical contacts. It can be not only anger, irritation or disagreement, but caring, tenderness and even love. Oddly enough, but children express such bright emotions by biting. In this case, it is simply necessary to teach the baby other ways to express his attitude - hugs, kisses, stroking. The best example will be your own - parents will begin to caress the baby and eventually he will understand the difference between aggressive behavior and tenderness.
Physical pain and allergies
This is an unusual explanation, but it does have a place to be. If all the above reasons are absent, then it is worth doing an allergy test.
What to do to stop the child from biting?
The first thing that parents should stop doing is to sort things out with the baby. Aggression breeds aggression. The kid must be sure that his house is his fortress. Parents need to learn to be friendly to others. Stop being rude, swearing in public. Be kind to other people.In order for the crumb to splash out its emotions, one should begin to engage in creativity: draw, sculpt, draw on kinetic sand, assemble a constructor.
If you play calm classical music during games, the effect will be higher. For a splash of physical activity, the child should be sent to the sports section or more often to walk in the playgrounds. On them, the child will be able to throw out his excessive activity.
It takes time, patience and love to stop a child from biting. It’s better to prevent this behavior. However, even at the initial stage this is easily corrected. The main thing is not to run.
