Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site water.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!water!rggoebel From: rggoebel@water.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: 2 year old biting habits Message-ID: <969@water.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:42:31 EST Article-I.D.: water.969 Posted: Fri Nov 1 22:42:31 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 07:36:18 EST References: <1320@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17 When I was two, I had the biting habit. My parents tried (so I'm told) all of the techniques you've reported, but the cure was a result of an untimely chomp on my father's toe. You see, my father is an extremely gentle soul who rarely even got angry...early one morning I was crawling around the kitchen floor when he awoke and while he was standing at the sink drinking a glass of water I took a hefty bit of one of his big toes. He was so surprised that without hesitating he picked me up and gave me the only wallop I ever remember him delivering. Apparently I never bit again. My daughter's biting was intially a defense mechanism--when she first began to walk (at nine months) her older brother (18 months her senior) had just learned about football and tackling. Biting was the only way to keep him from piling on. It seems that his screams of pain got her a whole bunch of immediate attention, and so she kept doing it to everyone. She was severe though, and grew out of it in about 2 months. Randy Goebel, father of Jodi and Kari