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- From: BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Help! - comforting bitee...
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:18:34 GMT
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- In article <C1FI8K.9z5@SSD.intel.com>
- wang@ssd.intel.com (Wen-Lin Wang) writes:
-
- >
- >My email bounced, so here it is...
- >
- >I know that quite a few people will assure you that biting is common and will
- >go away eventually. Well, it will go away and maybe it's common too, but I
- >don't think it's acceptable. It creates heartache for parents, not
- >mentioning possible infections if skin breaks.
- >
- >My daughter was bitten once with small skin breaks. At the time the teachers
- >payed a lot of attention on her so she didn't think much about it. Later on
- >she would tell me who bit her. I taught her that if any kid was about to bite
- >her, she should "push that child away and say loudly 'NO BITING', and call the
- >teacher for help". We practiced this couple of times and she appeared happy
- >with some confidence that she can control the situation.
- >
- This is exactly what they teach the children at my daughter's daycare.
- (Kindercare). I seems to work pretty well. Except for the other day, when
- another child took a little boy's book away and he went to retaliate. The
- other little girl realized that and escaped and the little boy - I guess he
- didn't know where to go with his anger - took it out on Tatijana. It
- barely broke the skin, but it looked really bad.
-
- >Since I knew the biter had a biting history, we talked to the head teacher
- >and heard about their policy of dealing with this situation. Her teacher
- >even guaranteed that this won't happen again. Since then, my daughter
- >advanced to the next group and we haven't heard any more such incident, yet.
- >
- Sometimes it helps, too, to advance the biter. When my daughter was still
- in "Infants II = 6 months to toddler stage" and was able to walk ok, she
- all a sudden started biting one little girl repeatedly. (2 - 3 times in
- several weeks) She was the nect child to move up (it was not quiteher
- turn, yet) because the teachers decided that she was probably bored with
- that group. I wasn't quite sure that that was true at the time, but she's
- never bitten anybody again.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Good luck.
- >
- >Wen-lin
- >
- >
- I would definitely make a big deal out of it, though. If it happens
- once, ok, but if it becomes a habit something needs to be done. Also,
- I think at almost 2, children should start to be able to handle their
- conflicts verbally unlike babies who really can't do that.
-
- Good luck,
-
- Stephanie
- >--
-