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From: rggoebel@water.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: 2 year old biting habits
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:42:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 22:42:31 1985
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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